It's About Time
Assignment:
Watch:
ART 21 Video, Janine Antoni. See link below. Write a personal response to Antoni's work and post on your blog.
Carve two forms from life (a small, plastic animal) using soap as your medium. Observe and depict proportions. Apply concepts of time to one of your carvings so that the form no longer represents your chosen animal. Use the same animal for both forms. Details below.
Materials:
-A couple of bars of soap (any kind, I suggest a variety - in case a brand is too soft or too fragrant)
-Kemper ribbon carving tool set
-Banning wheel
-Small plastic animal or figure (if needed, you can borrow from me)
-Toothpicks can sometimes be useful for detail work.
-Butter knife can also be useful.
-Ivory soap is VERY soft. I do not suggest using Ivory soap for this assignment. On the other hand, Ivory Soap floats...so, maybe it is worth it for you to use if your idea involves floating. ---Glycerin soap is transparent, so it can be used for this quality.
Details:
Carving #1
Will be used for an "observation" grade. The soap carving does not have to be the exact size of the plastic animal. However, proportions need to be correct. Make sure to turn in your plastic animal along with observational carving.
Carving #2
Use your least successful carving for the time based portion of this assignment.
The goal is to remove the form as far away as possible from its original state.
Employ at least four processes that address "addition" AND at least four processes that address "subtraction" for a total of eight processes. You may have more than eight processes.
Use photographs and/or video to document the stages of your process and the final solution. Set up a professional background to photograph the form in each stage of change.
Process pictures of you performing the change do not have to have a professional background.
Post final images/video on your blog.
Clearly label each stage and state what you did and what materials you used.For instance, "Additive. I put holes in soap and added ink to each hole".
Final solution can result in the soap turning to liquid, or a frozen form or multiple pieces.
Response
In Process Photos
It's About Time, Assignment Guidelines
Watch:
ART 21 Video, Janine Antoni. See link below. Write a personal response to Antoni's work and post on your blog.
Carve two forms from life (a small, plastic animal) using soap as your medium. Observe and depict proportions. Apply concepts of time to one of your carvings so that the form no longer represents your chosen animal. Use the same animal for both forms. Details below.
Materials:
-A couple of bars of soap (any kind, I suggest a variety - in case a brand is too soft or too fragrant)
-Kemper ribbon carving tool set
-Banning wheel
-Small plastic animal or figure (if needed, you can borrow from me)
-Toothpicks can sometimes be useful for detail work.
-Butter knife can also be useful.
-Ivory soap is VERY soft. I do not suggest using Ivory soap for this assignment. On the other hand, Ivory Soap floats...so, maybe it is worth it for you to use if your idea involves floating. ---Glycerin soap is transparent, so it can be used for this quality.
Details:
Carving #1
Will be used for an "observation" grade. The soap carving does not have to be the exact size of the plastic animal. However, proportions need to be correct. Make sure to turn in your plastic animal along with observational carving.
Carving #2
Use your least successful carving for the time based portion of this assignment.
The goal is to remove the form as far away as possible from its original state.
Employ at least four processes that address "addition" AND at least four processes that address "subtraction" for a total of eight processes. You may have more than eight processes.
Use photographs and/or video to document the stages of your process and the final solution. Set up a professional background to photograph the form in each stage of change.
Process pictures of you performing the change do not have to have a professional background.
Post final images/video on your blog.
Clearly label each stage and state what you did and what materials you used.For instance, "Additive. I put holes in soap and added ink to each hole".
Final solution can result in the soap turning to liquid, or a frozen form or multiple pieces.
Response
Janine Antoni's work is quite intriguing. Watching her make her way through ideas and creating the two sculptures showed me that soap carving isn't as hard as it seems. Also the way she made one out of soap and one out of chocolate and eroded them in a natural way gave me ideas for my second bunny. Since one was chocolate, she had licked it until it was a smoother face. The soap one she had washed over and over, like how we wash our hands with soap naturally. This made me think about the animal I bought and what I could do to it that wouldn't be too far off from what we normally do. Then I asked my dad how he used to eat rabbit and how he'd cook them and got the idea of biting into the soap itself and all. This was recycled in my attempts of changing the second bunny dues to me biting into the bunny and dragging him on the ground with my bike. I wanted to bring in a child-like attribute to the care and "playtime" with the second bunny itself.
Soap Carving Complete!
Plastic Bunny and my best soap carved bunny
Best Carved Bunny
Bunny that did not win the draw
Family Reunion after changes!
The first bunny was really easy to make, all I had to do was follow instructions and carve it as close to the plastic bunny as I possibly could. I started carving out the shape first, including the head and the legs,a and tail.
It's about time
Messing with the second bunny by adding and subtracting to it
1.) Is it hot in here or what? - placed the soap rabbit on candle warmer and let it sit for an hour. (adding)
2.) Mmmmm, tasty! - Took a huge bite out of the bunny on the right side. (subtracting)
3.) I can fix this! - took pins and stuck them through the pieces bitten off and stuck them back to the bunny. (adding)
4.) Going out for a stroll- Added on yarn to the bunny and tied him up to my bike and rode around on the bike while he was dragging on the ground. (subtracted)
5.)That's a great way to lose a few pounds - Cut off half of the body leaving the butt in the air. (subtracted)
6.) Peter cottontail - glued cottone onto his tail to create his own since he is a baby cottontail bunny (added)
7.) Is it hot in here or what - put him in the microwave for 4 minutes and 30 seconds (added)
8.) Still losing weight! - Tore off some of the pieces that remained (subtracted)
9.) Now time for some color- Added some yellow ink and cereal and microwaved
Sketches
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