Concept
My purpose for this project is to create a skeleton structure to cover the middle part of my back. I was inspired by my great-grandmother’s back. As I lived with her for a few years when I was a little, I always noticed that she had hunchback, it was caused by farming since she had to plant sorghum for family survival in the past. According to this, I want to make a design for not only recalling the memory of us, but also to reveal the effect that was caused by struggling for life in my great-grandmother’s generation.
Mood Board
Patter Selection
Considers:
I want to make the final structure looks like the middle part of the back, but different from the actual bone structure.
Therefore, I decided to use different kind of wires. Specifically, the middle part of the structure I will use sculpture wire as it is firm enough to handle all of the other parts of the artwork. On the other hand, I will twist another two wires together to create the other two strong sticks for the sides outline.
I will wrap the wire into different waves to mimic the bone structure. When I am doing the experimental connections by wrapping and twisting wires, I find out that it is pretty hard to make the wire being smooth. I will work on the wave technique by using small pliers, and use thin and soft wire to help with the connections each joint.
Different views from front, side, bottom, and top
Waving wire
Connections
Using plastic paper to indicates the concept of unmovable middle back.
The color red represents pain.
Thread connections
