THE IDEA
The 12 Sketches I Made For The Project
6 for the symmetrical figure
6 for the Asymmetrical Figure
THE FINAL PIECES
Both figures in the same plane
Symmetrical Figure
Asymmetrical Figure
MY REFLECTION
For my linear abstraction project, I was given the emotion of boredom. At first, I struggled with the idea as I wasn’t able to even get a grasp of how boredom would look figuratively but once I reflected the emotion upon myself ideas started coming naturally. When I thought about boredom, I remembered how I often feel liquified in a way where my body contorts in different shapes and angles due to the restlessness the emotion gives me. My body will flow in different directions and creates a very fluid choreography which I wanted to resonate in my sculpture so I started sketching circular figures with a lot of curves. For the fabric, I knew instantly that I wanted it to be gray-colored but I wasn’t exactly sure what type of texture I should’ve used. Another huge side effect of boredom for me was that it often led me to feel very lethargic and I instantly related that to a pillowcase. It was also perfect because my pillowcase had a silky texture which added to the fluid essence of the structures. As I was sawing, I didn’t want the sculptures to have a closed volume and I wanted some of the wires to show through so I sew the fabric sparsely onto the figures. I also saw it haphazardly to give it a ragged, shabby look because that’s how boredom makes me feel inside. I think symmetry was the hardest part of this project because I identify boredom as a very asymmetrical emotion where you feel like you’re in limbo and filled with uncertainty, there is nothing perfect or stable about it. Therefore, I could say that my asymmetrical figure is in all ways asymmetrical. One end is higher than the other, the fabric is dispersed randomly, some parts have support some don’t. Perfectly imperfect. My symmetrical piece is symmetrical on all sides but not all ways. The pattern of wires are all the same but the fabric applied on top isn’t. I kept the ragged look on the symmetrical one as well because I wanted the fabric and the way it was sawn on to be the connection between the pieces. However, I sawed onto the symmetrical one in such a manner that when you overlap all four wings it becomes one full image. This quality gave the pattern of fabrics a sense of order which usually is a quality associated with symmetry.
