Project Description:
Instead of having a project sheet handed to us we had a rather interesting assignment where we were asked to create a project sheet -> Final Bridge Project Sheet_-1lzq7oo where we were asked to create a project and model based on one material, class or object that we liked and disliked working with.
Materials Used:
Paper, glue, plexiglass, foam board, plastic, gold paint and
Reflection:
In occurrence of an unexpected event that took place recently in my life my view on everything changed. When all hop was lost I was asked to look into this idea of an existence of a spiritual higher being. Something that I’ve had practice of before but never truly believed in it. I wanted to create a connection between this spiritual idea of whether I believe in it and my avatar class. With this idea in mind I thought about how spiritual beings have different avatars. For the next step I picked one spiritual being that is known to all, where I chose Buddha and read its beliefs and morals and decided to create a 3D representation of the different Avatars.
In order to gain an idea of the different representations of buddha I walked around the city and entered different stores that had a sculpture of Buddha. I photographed some of them as seen below.
This process also helped me explore different materials used and the texture it brings out, that I could adapt into my final project.
I then began sketching out the avatars of Buddhas from the ones I had seen around.
I wanted use plexiglass for my final model to create the buddha sculptures. However in order to create the piece I had to first trace the sketch on adobe using the pen tool to create the outline so I could then cut them out and then have repeated parts of the sketch outlined separately in order to gain a 3D feature as seen in the image below.
However, the biggest task with this project was not just finding the right dimensions but figuring out how to stick plexiglass onto plexiglass. Once i researched I figured out that the fastest and only possible way was through using a special acrylic glue or acrylic cement.
Final Project Photographed
