My first Tuttle Sculpture
Above are few view of my first Tuttle sculpture. I have decided to stick to wire, wood, and a blow up pool for my three materials. I chose these three, because they all have very different personalities and I was interested to see how I could make them interact with each other. For this first sculpture I pretty much just started going and seeing how every move and choice I made would inspire the next move. This is very different for me, because I am very representational with my work. I do actually enjoy the process of playing more than I thought I would. I am looking forward to see how many ifferent ways I can manipulate these materials in the following weeks.
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Week 2 Sculpture
I am still currently working with the materials I selected in the beginning of this whole project. To refresh, those materials are a plastic pool, wood, wire, and foil. For this sculpture I started off by poking the stovepipe wire through the plastic pool material in a sewing like fashion. It started to take shape and look like abstracted flowers. I decided to keep playing with this nature abstraction as I continued. The placement was chosen to make the sculpture appear more as a vine wrapping around a pillar with flowers. I have really just been experimenting and letting my findings take me to my next decision or idea.
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Week 3 Sculpture
This time around I found some small wooden dowels that I decided to break and glue together. Once I was gluing I was finding that the piece was starting to look like a weird abstracted tree or tornado so, I kind of just went with it. I kept gluing the broken pieces together and I decided to wrap stovepipe wire around the entire piece to give it motion and movement. I played around with the placement a lot this time as well. I enjoyed the way I placed it on the wall because to me it seems unexpected and intriguing. I'm enjoying this process of playing and getting to let loose a little.
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Week 4 sculpture
For this sculpture I took some wood scraps and cut them to be about the same size and assembled them together. I kind of wanted the wood to have a fence like appearance to it. To me it looks like the space between fence links. I experimented with wrapping the wire around the wood to make it look kind of vine like. I was really liking how this was looking so I kept doing it. Then I called back to one of my previous techniques I have used, which was to take bits of the plastic pool and sew the wire through them. They came out looking like little flowers in a way. This end result I really liked.
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Week 5 sculpture
For this sculpture I was trying to do something similar to what Richard Tuttle did with his wire pieces that he hung against the wall. I started by putting a nails in the wall and just connecting the wire and wrapping it around the nails in a way that I found to be interesting. This process of just putting the nails in first felt very freeing for me. I didn't really have a plan about where the nails should go, and I enjoyed just making decisions as questions arose.
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6th Tuttle Sculpture
When I started this sculpture I was thinking about the cloth shapes that Richard Tuttle has laid on the floor of galleries before. I decided to take the white plastic part of the pool and cut a shape out of it and nail it to the wall. I then began wrapping wire around the nails and adding nails to wrap around to make shapes within and protruding from the plastic shape. When I stepped back I was very pleased with the overall work. I really enjoyed the intuitive process I chose to use. I enjoy how the ripples in the plastic contrast against the wall.
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7th weekly Tuttle Sculpture
I have always loved working with wire, and since it is one of the materials I chose I decided to play around with it a bit more for this project. I started by putting a singular nail in the wall and twisting a large piece of wire until it was wound up tightly. I then began weaving the wire through its own loops and pulling them through. The more I did this the more and more the piece resembled some abstracted nature form to me, and I really enjoyed that. I have really loved just being able t play and make decisions as I go.
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8th Tuttle Sculpture
For my very last sculpture I decided to bring out the tinfoil I bought at the beginning of the semester, because I have not used it in a while. I chose to take of the sides of the foil tray to make it less recognizable as a foil grease tray. I then began to fold it. As I was folding I took some wire and began to weave it through the holes in the tray, being careful not to rip the tray apart. As I kept weaving I was noticing that the form the piece was taking started to remind me of a purse and I added a wire handle to the top. I have really enjoyed the Tuttle sculptures as a way of breaking out of my comfort zone and just simply playing and experimenting.
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