I don’t really have a final sculpture; I would rather call it another sculpture because I’m not done yet. As an artist, I enjoy spending time sketching my next projects and then working on them. This is my inspiration, the joy of thinking about something that has not yet created and creating it. David Smith broadened my inspiration; he gave me more thoughts to play with, as a child plays with his new toys. I love how David Smith was able to make art as if the world was his, he had the ability to manipulate the world around him and convert it into his own. I must say that I didn’t feel like the oldest in the group, everybody was acting really mature and were so skilled that I could barely notice the gap of experience between us. As a student here at the Guggenheim museum I was able to make three sculptures in a 3D program called SketchUp: Moony, Gravitation and City-home. Moony is my favorite sculpture because it represents a lot of ideas together. The animal in the center of the sculpture represents life. There is also a love symbol and the fire, water, soil symbols are there, too. Moony for me represents the things we need the most in order to live. City-home is a sculpture of my surroundings. I'm pretty sure you could notice the moon and the sun; I also included my school stairs, mountains, the train and a building. Among the three sculptures, this one looks more technological to me. Gravitation is a response to David Smith’s work. I took found objects which were flat and put them together on a paper, took a picture and then put them in the computer. The next step was to make it 3D, and Gravitation was the result of all that work. |