Haley Juskowski : May 2023

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Relief Sculpture

Touching Life's Clock

Acrylic Paint, Wooden Skewers, Baby Powder, Spray Foam, Foam Round, Elmers Glue, 3D Printed objects

16x16"

Artist's Statement:

This sculpture explores the sense of touch and how sight and touch connect back to life as a whole. It visually communicates the idea of time and life through the color and the 12 skewers that are formed as a sort of awkward clock formation. Overall the work was inspired mostly around touch. I actually designed a goop made of paint, baby powder, and Elmers glue that hardens as it dries and creates a strange texture for the viewer. Not to mention the pieces of spray foam scattered along the piece also allows for new textures to explore as well because it has an element of squish to it that the rest of the piece does not have. I think the idea of touch is significant in life especially because we as humans cannot survive without touch. I also see touch connecting back to the idea of life and time because our first real sense of touch is typically our mothers giving us life. Touch is all around us and being able to connect with the world in that way is important.

Sulaman Arshad

https://foundations3ddesign.blogspot.com/search/label/Relief%20Sculpture%20Artists

https://www.saatchiart.com/solman

Vladimir Shelest

https://foundations3ddesign.blogspot.com/search/label/Relief%20Sculpture%20Artists

http://e-sh.ru/

Bianca Severijns

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https://biancaseverijns.com/uprooted-series/

Memento

The Last Hug

Wood, Fabric, Cigarette Smoke

Roughly 3x3"

Artist Statement:

This work reflects one of the few memories I have of my uncle who passed. He always smelled like cigarettes. I biggest memory I still have of him is giving him a hug and always being enveloped in the smell of the smoke. I decided to use wood because the majority of the time when I was around him we were at his lake house in the woods. The fabric is actually a piece of one of his old shirts which makes it even more important. Lastly the cigarette smoke is imbedded in the fabric and it was smoke from the kind of cigarettes that he actually smoked. I used the curve of the two wooden rings to symbolize that of a softness, a hug or connection between two separate things. The fabric really does bring the t-shirt quality to the piece and the smell that goes with it brings the memory rushing back.

Nina E. Allender

https://foundations3ddesign.blogspot.com/search/label/Memento%20Artist%20Inspiration

https://www.nps.gov/articles/getaway-bepa.htm

Lenka Clayton

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Portable Diptych Sundial

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https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/188849

Experimental Sculpture Collection

In Balance

Spray Foam, Wire, Hot Glue, Wire, Yarn, Tracing Paper, Mat Medium, Blue Ink, Purple Ink

Repeat After Me!

Black ink, Tracing Paper, Mat Medium, Wire

Focus On Me!

Tracing Paper, Mat Medium, Wire, Hot Glue, Yarn, Faux Feathers

Reflection Statement:

The experimental sculptures entitled In Balance, Repeat After Me, and Focus On Me were inspired by the principles of design we learned about in class. My intent is to visually communicate those principles in a unique way. I wanted to focus visual balance, repetition, and focal point of the pieces. I decided to include literal principles that were clear and work into those. I felt the work was lacking clear obvious principles at times so I tried to really work within the principles as a baseline. I want to keep exploring with these materials in a constructive way. I want to learn more about how to incorporate the principles of design into my work. These pieces allowed for me to put the skills I have already developed to better use. The making of this work exposed new ideas such as new ways to work with the materials and principles of design to further improve my craft.

Ted Lott

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https://tedlott.com/home.html

Terry Kreiter

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http://terrykreiter.blogspot.com/2017/11/balsa-wood-and-japanese-tissue-new.html

Tadashi Kawamata

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https://kamelmennour.com/artists/tadashi-kawamata

Visual Symbols

Inside My Head

Air Dry Clay, Blue Marker, Brown Marker

Roughly 4-5" Tall

Detail

A Mothers Love

Air Dry Clay, Red Marker

Roughly 4-5" Tall

Detail

Reflection Statement:

The ceramic sculptures entitled Inside My Head and A Mothers Love, were inspired by the medical disorder (cluster headaches) that I have suffered throughout the last six years as well as the bond between mother and child during pregnancy. My intent is to visually communicate what I go through regularly. I wanted to focus on the pained look for my figurative bust because that was the most compelling visual for this particular illness. I also wanted to focus solely on the swollen stomach of a pregnant mother growing her child with love and support. I decided to include two arms and with hands gripping the sides of my figures head for the first figure. Next, I worked to achieve a similar idea to that of a fertility totem from ancient times. I felt the work was lacking some clarity so I added two medical symbols and some extra color as well to indicate the separation between the hands and head. For my second sculpture I hollowed out the back of my figure and filled it with my ten items. I want to keep exploring with these materials in a constructive way. I want to learn more about accurate figure proportion. These pieces allowed for me to put the skills I have already developed to better use. The making of these works exposed new ideas such as new ways to work with the materials and new ways of manipulating the work to portray clear messages.