Box Sculpture

I have made another piece since which is of a slightly similar concept. Made with wood, I created a tower of black and grey boxes; It is meant to resemble a city structure- Symbolic of urbanisation.

 

In the boxes are different stages of grass. The bottom and largest box is full of fresh green grass. It is symbolic of how we (humanity-urban) use nature to live and build empires. The second box, is on top the black one, to symbolise further growth in the urban area. This contains rotting grass, dying and hence yellow. Then the top box, which is highest, contains fermented grass.ie silage- It shows how we build excessively on nature, destoying it in the process.

 

Bottom box: Fresh grass

Middle box: Rotting grass

Top box: Fermented grass

(I did not put silage in yet for pratical reasons)

 

mud sculpture

Again playing with the idea of making sculptures with materials which contrast the content, I was at home in Cork one weekend and decided to make use of the materials at hand. My biggest sculpture yet, I tis higher than me at itt's highest point.

It required heavy lifting and alot of work, anmd although I am not entirly happy with the result, I orefer the context in which it was built.

Resembling city buildings, I mage it using only mud, soyne and wood. I made an work of urban resemblence through the use of only organic materials.



 

 

 

 

shadows

In the being, while I was in the process of making the Ivy sculpture, and so only gluing together the cityscapes, I had some fun playing around with shadows on a sunny day.
The following was the result:

Sketchbook

The following are some sketchs from my sketchbook;

Knitting Machine

I learned how to operate the knitting machine in the fashion department, and knitted some green sleeves of wool which I put in my shetchbook. I had an idea of knitting a pillow in which I would plant grass seeds and water on a regular basis. I would loosely wrap it in wire, hoping that the grass would grow through gaps in it, again expressing the idea of nature breaking through urbans confinements. I did not however have enough time to complete this task.

Fashion-Knit

Moving on from the Ivy piece, I had many ideas which involved the use of fashion and the body as a medium of creating work to portray the concept of my idea. The following are ideas I drew in my sketchbook;



Black Ivy.

The above resulted in a piece I call 'Black Ivy'. Made from different sized and shaped wood, I painted the pieces different shades of grey and black, with the desire to create a ciytscape effect once stuck together. However, with these city like structures I wanted to create the shape of an Ivy leaf, one of nature greastest parasites.

 

 

 

I then weaved Ivy through the Structure to enhance the shape of the piece. Although I was unable to carry out the following, I had hoped to photgraph this piece in many different locations, gradually moving from a rural area to a city area. As this would have occured, The ivy would have gradually rottened, being fresh and green in the country side, and dead and crumpled in the city scene. I t would have been a good reflection on the effect urbanisation has on nature.