Reflecting on Found Object Sculptures

Over the past few weeks we worked hard on building sculptures out of objects that we brought it. To start this project we took our objects and destroyed the larger of them. I brought in a laptop to destroy. Destroying the laptop was much harder then I had expected. After i had destroyed the laptop i took the pieces and looked at them for awhile. Right away the idea of a house popped into my mind. I had this idea because I had four larger pieces that could be walls. Right away i got to work putting the base of the house down. After the house i made a wall out of a jean skirt. Then i started decorating the house. I took some outdoor materials to use as trees. Then i made a garden out of beads. After i started to decorate the inside of the house making sure not to miss details. I then had extra time so i added a garage and and a car. Overall i was very happy with the way the house turned out. If i had had much more time i probably would have used a different material then hot glue so that the project wouldn't end up with a bunch of stings everywhere. In our class discussion we got a chance to look at the other sculptures. This was intersitng to see everyone else's creative ideas.

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In all these pictures the artists chose pieces of things that they decided to make a sculpture out of. This objects can basically be whatever they want. They don't have to have any certain features to be part of a sculpture. When someone made the lamp that is part of the dog sculpture now, they probably didn't think that it would ever end up in a sculpture. All the artist had to do to find the objects was find something that somehow inspired them to make a sculpture out of it.