With this In Depth project I wanted to expand a bit more with material exploration and the continuation of the city Saphronia from the Calvino reading.
Based on the phrases from the reading, "Great rollercoaster with its steep humps" "Carousel with its chain spokes" "Ferris wheel of spinning cages" "Death ride" I depicted what these phrases held in common. I found that these things were: Metal, Electricity, oil, and danger.
I experimented with beading wire at first but it was a bit more difficult to manipulated the way I wanted, needed a malleable metal that covered more surface area. I chose chicken wire instead, conveyed my concept more fitting than the beading wire. I started by cutting the chicken wire and forming small and large portions, then connecting them together to form the entire structure itself.
After, I began to weave in the red electrical wire, during this process I was planning and thinking about how much wire I wanted woven in or exposed on the frame of the sculpture. I used 12 gauge red and black electrical wire to illustrate how the machines operate, powered by. I wove the electrical wire through the entire sculpture with the intention of depicting the dynamic movement of a roller coaster. I wanted to portray a hazardous and perilous roller coaster with sharp turns, curves, twists, and loops that would be in the one half of the city of Saphronia.
In addition, I spilled India ink on the sculpture to help illustrate the (oil and petroleum) that helps run the engine of these machines.
Even though I might be difficult to see in the photographs, I added food coloring (red, blue, green, yellow). I dripped the various colors on the piece to experiment with this material that I have never used before. The coloring from the India ink and food coloring stayed on the piece but it took several days to dry because of the metal did not absorb the liquid medium thoroughly.
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