{"id":1901,"date":"2013-12-07T18:42:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T02:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2013-12-07T18:42:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T02:42:16","slug":"my-metal-creations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/2013\/12\/07\/my-metal-creations\/","title":{"rendered":"My Metal Creations"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you guys learned from the many pictures of me sporting a dust mask and goggles, I’ve been taking Metal Sculpture this semester! I’ve learned, welded, sliced, sawed, bent, heated, created, and gotten really<\/em> sore\u00a0over the course of the past few months. Here’s some of the projects I’ve finished so far!<\/p>\n

Project #1:<\/strong> This project was pretty simple, just so we could get used to working with the equipment. The guidelines were to create a structural form with a “linear” form that pushed the boundaries of stability. For my piece, I crafted a triangular-hexagonal prism with “linear” wings. It wasn’t very big, but I was pleased with it considering I’d never worked with metal before this year!<\/p>\n

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Project #2:\u00a0<\/strong>The next project we were assigned was meant to incorporate a material other than metal in the sculpture. Called the “Hard and Soft” project, the “soft” material could be virtually anything; people in my class used cotton, velvet, pennies, colored velum, even pipettes from a biology class. Inspired by the rock hunting my dad and I used to do in the desert when I was a kid, I chose to create crystalline structures that were accompanied by flowing blue fabric that suggested water. This has been my favorite piece I’ve made so far.<\/p>\n

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Project #3:\u00a0<\/strong>The most recent project I finished was one inspired by an artist of our choice! Because I’ve always been fascinated with street art and its culture, I decided to pick Banksy as my artist. If you’re unfamiliar with him (first of all I’m a little surprised!) he’s a pretty famous, anonymous street artist whose stencil work usually features striking images with some sort of social or political commentary and sassy slogans. Running with this theme, I decided to make a steel stencil with a pretty grotesque image–a child holding a beer bottle and, well, losing his lunch. It’s covered in steel flowers as well, because I wanted the first thing that jumps out at you to be something beautiful, sort of a disguise for the not so pretty image that would be left by the stencil. Here’s what I mean! The stencil before painting…\"IMG_4290\"<\/a><\/p>\n

…and after! (featuring a heart not included in the above picture)<\/p>\n

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Honestly I was just impressed\/glad that the image came through when stenciled!!<\/p>\n

I’ve had a ton of fun in this class so far. My next and final project is going to be an expansion on the crystal project; I’m going to focus on creating an environment, rather than an object, by essentially turning one of the rooms in the studio into a crystal-filled cave. It will be lit with string lights under more of the same fabric, making it like a glowing waterfall. If all goes like I plan, it should be pretty cool! I’ll be sure to post pictures of the finished project.<\/p>\n

Until then, I’ve got LOTS of metal to mold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you guys learned from the many pictures of me sporting a dust mask and goggles, I’ve been taking Metal Sculpture this semester! I’ve learned, welded, sliced, sawed, bent, heated, created, and gotten really sore\u00a0over the course of the past … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,34,338,339,262,336,335,296,337],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maddie-peckenpaugh-16","tag-art","tag-cool","tag-crystals","tag-installation","tag-metal","tag-painting","tag-sculpture","tag-street-art","tag-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1917,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions\/1917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/admission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}