UWM-Mixed Media
Consumption
Exhibition Text
Consumption is a scultpure piece that uses bottles and skeletons of dead coral. This piece symbolizes the pollution in our ocean’s that has caused a lot of harm to water life. The bottles in the piece are store bought along with one of the skeleton coral with the fish. This piece was inspired Alex Chiu and Mark Bradford as they both made sculptures to symbolize the pollution in the ocean.
Consumption is a scultpure piece that uses bottles and skeletons of dead coral. This piece symbolizes the pollution in our ocean’s that has caused a lot of harm to water life. The bottles in the piece are store bought along with one of the skeleton coral with the fish. This piece was inspired Alex Chiu and Mark Bradford as they both made sculptures to symbolize the pollution in the ocean.
Inspiration
My first inspiration was another mixed media sculpture that was done by Mark Bradford. As he created a scultpure of a fish with plastic bottles in the belly of this large fish. He created this scultpure in Houston, Texas at a lake at discovery Green. The completion of this piece was April 5, 2012. This piece symbolizes and shows the affects of the pollution of tash has on the fish and other water life. This scultpure was made out of trash, recycled stainless steel mesh, steel bars, sheets, gear boxes, old street signs, solar panels, windshield wiper mortars, and old sky lights. This piece uses warm colors to create this piece consisting of orange, shades of orange, red and shades of red. My other inspiration is similar to my first inspiration as both of these pieces have the same meaning. This piece was another mixed media scultpure that was done by Alex Chiu. This piece was created in Hunting beach California. Alex Chiu organized a garbage pick up from his beach. From that garbage pick up he used the garbage to create a large fish sculpture.He created this scultpure for Innocean USA. The meaning behind his price is to not pollute and throw your trash into the water or beaches as it could harm the life that lives in the water. The piece consists of the garbage along with pink and blue painted pieces to use as the fish head and tail and fins. |
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Planning
My first planning sketch was to include garbage along with the plastic bottles and not to have the plastic bottles continue along the the backside of the skeleton of the coral. Almost make the plastic bottles make it look like bars as this would have the meaning of fish being trapped. This sculpture would only be about 2 ft wide, 1 a half ft length, and two feet in height. The garbage would lay in front of the plastic bottles. As this would represent the pollution in the ocean trapping the widelife and harming the widelife even to its death. My second planning sketch was of a large water jug with the plastic bottles and the skeleton of the coral on the inside of the piece. This piece would have the skeleton of the coral on the bottom of the jug with the plastic bottles laying around and hanging in the jug. The jug would possibly be filled with water just to display the setting of the scultpure. This piece would only be about 20 inches in height and the length and width would both be 10,75 inches. This piece would also represent the widelife and the setting of what the ocean life would have to live in when it is polluted with garbage. My third planning sketch was of plastic bottles that circled the skeleton of the coral. This would have the skeleton of the coral literally trapped inside the bottles. The skeleton would be hard to see from outside the bottles. This piece would be one ft in length and in height and the width would be about 2 ft. This piece would represent how people don’t see the effects of throwing their garbage in the oceans and polluting the beaches does the water wide life. Along with how the wildlife in the water are trapped and what they half to live in when the ocean is polluted with garbage. |
Process
First I went to the store to acquire the bottles and one skeleton for the scultpure. Then I first started hot gluing the bottles together I started with them horizontally to the ground. I first started with a slanted corner and then continued with going down one edge until the base was finished. I placed the Skelton’s of the coral in side to make sure it fit as I was building it. I continued to build around the skeleton of the coral to make sure I made the plastic bottles was high enough to cover over the skeleton of the coral. I did a second layer of bottles around the skeleton of the coral. I then laid the bottles across the top of the skeletons. I took pictures of the finish product and got multiple biew points of the finish scultpure. |
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Experimentation
In this project I experimented with the format of the final scultpure. I rearranged the final piece a few times around to see what would look best for the final product. I rearranged the items to sit in the plastic bottles and to have them sit in front of the plastic bottles. I believe with the plastic bottle cage over the skeletons is the best layout to conveying my meaning of my piece. |
Act Questions
1.Clearly explain and describe how you are able to identify the cause and-effect relationship between your inspiration and its effect upon your artwork.
2.What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
3.What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
4.What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
5.What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
1.Clearly explain and describe how you are able to identify the cause and-effect relationship between your inspiration and its effect upon your artwork.
2.What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
3.What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
4.What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
5.What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
Citations
“Innocean Fish Sculpture: Don't Trash Where You Splash!” Alex Chiu the Artist., www.alexdoodles.com/2012/03/innocean-fish-sculpture-dont-trash.html.
“‘NOMO’ Trash Fish Sculpture.” Houston Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2012, www.chron.com/communityblogs/atmosphere/slideshow/NOMO-Trash-Fish-sculpture-41323.php.
“Innocean Fish Sculpture: Don't Trash Where You Splash!” Alex Chiu the Artist., www.alexdoodles.com/2012/03/innocean-fish-sculpture-dont-trash.html.
“‘NOMO’ Trash Fish Sculpture.” Houston Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2012, www.chron.com/communityblogs/atmosphere/slideshow/NOMO-Trash-Fish-sculpture-41323.php.