Wire Relief Portrait – Space / Materiality

For this project, I began by drawing a few line drawings to use for the wiring.  After multiple attempts, I settled on using the first of the five images below.

 

Then I tried using the wire to recreate the image.  I did this pretty well,  but it ended up being too small, so I was asked to redo it...
Unfortunately, when I tried transferring the wire from the foamcore board to a piece of paper, the entire thing fell apart.

Oh well.

I ended up redoing the drawing on a fresh piece of foamcore and redoing it on a larger scale.  While I don’t think it came out quite as good as the first version, I do believe it fulfills the requirements for the assignment.

Here are a few images of the process, as well as the final product.  Because I used black annealed wires, some of the black coloring came off on the white background.  I tried erasing it multiple times in different ways, but I couldn’t get the ink off.

Oh well. Still looks pretty cool.  Though I’m sure there are better examples.

I went with a more stylized approach, trying to make the wire look like a scribly sketch, which is often the way I draw by hand–I think this worked out pretty well!

Hope you enjoy!