Eggleston-Whyte
Reference images
My initial idea was to create a clay rabbit that looked like it was melting or deformed.
I began with the head, creating a basic shape and then adding some clay to make eyelids.
30/03/21
Over the easter holidays my first rabbit head and ears dried out and I had to restart. I also found two black beads that worked perfect for eyes.
After crit notes-
Date everything
Media experiments and research
Project proposal
Progress notes
Source/link reference images
Barry.......
Talk about failures
Photos and notes of everything
Basic body, detailed head-metaphor, "all in your head"
Expanding foam practice
Crit notes
Mini sculptures, different poses, different styles
Sculpture park examples
Enlarge photos/sculpture into spaces
20/04/21
27/04/21
Media pros and cons
Media. Pros. Cons.
Clay Easy to mould, carve, shape, Can dry up, not long lasting
good for detail
Plaster Layered on top of foam, long lasting, Foam first, time consuming
good for detail
Foam Long lasting, base for plaster Struggled to get a basic shape
Sculpey Long lasting, easy to mould Foil armature, need to bake it
04/05/21
I briefly experimented with expanding foam but I struggled to get a basic shape so I know trying to add any detail would be impossible and very time consuming for me. Plaster is good for carving detail but a foam armature would be required.
Barry Flanagan is best known for his bronze hare sculptures and other animal sculptures. His sculptures range in size and positions but are commonly not realistic and they tend to be disproportionate with long limbs. Some of his works also have human characteristics and proportions. “Flanagan’s primary fascination, however, lay in the hare’s anthropomorphic potential; its ability to magnify a range of expressive attributes, to convey meaning and feeling beyond what he felt was possible in the manifestation of human form.” https://www.kasmingallery.com/exhibition/barry-flanagan
06/05/21
Previously I’ve said that my context for this project is based on my mental health and how animals have helped me through but I haven’t gone into much detail... So; Beth Caveners ‘tangled up in you’ is based around the idea of being caught up in emotions and being stuck in the past, this relates strongly to my context as the main cause for my recent mental health is my now ex. At the end of 2020 I was the happiest I had been in years but that didn’t last long because he decided to fuck off and disappear without saying anything. And when I say ‘without saying anything’ I mean one second we were messaging and the next thing I know it’s been months. At first I was incredibly worried, I couldn’t sleep, I barely ate, I was constantly crying and because he drives around the country for a living I thought he could have been dead or injured. I had no way of knowing since he wasn’t comfortable telling his parents about me and he hadn’t told his friends so nobody knew to tell me if he was dead. Constantly breaking down felt like hell, I tried desperately to hide it from people, especially my mother since she doesn’t believe in mental health issues.... But about a month after he disappeared his social media accounts blocked me, so he’s alive, but an absolute asshole. This made me furious at first and then immensely depressed and I was consistently overthinking, ‘had I done something wrong’ ‘did something happen to him that made him need to block me’ ‘was he leading me on’ ‘was it all for fun’ ‘did his parents find out’ every possible reason or possibility ran through my head and it was all I could think of. My mind was a mess. But I’m getting through it slowly, and an incredibly big thing that’s helping is my puppy! She’s the reason I get up in the morning, if I don’t she whines and scratches the door until I do, if I didn’t have her I would literally rot away in my own bed, If I’m crying she’ll sit in my lap and lick me until I’m laughing. I wouldn’t be alive without her. So I wanted to base my project off of how much she’s helped me, I would’ve done a dog sculpture instead but I decided to do rabbits to dedicate it to my first emotional support animal, my old rabbit.
11/05/21
Sculpting is boring. I've lost all motivation. So I'm going to do something different! Same context and ideas apply, just different medium! Digital! when I started this course I wanted to rekindle my old love for sculpting, that didn't work so I have decided to go back to my passion of digital. I decided to return to one of my original ideas of having the rabbit torn open and ripped apart. I didn't feel comfortable with the time left to do something big or realistic so I decided to do a style called 'Candy gore'. Depending on how quickly I work and the detail and depth I went into I plan to create multiple small pieces.
Mental break/change of medium
(Yes two weeks before the deadline. Not the sm
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