Nt1310 Unit 3 Assignment

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The four options I came up with for creating the sculpture were to use a barbie or any sort of “human” looking doll, using a mannequin, creating a sculpture using plastic tape, and creating a sculpture using papier mache. Immediately after finishing the drafts, I had eliminated the idea of using dolls or mannequin as my sculpture, due to the fact that using those would make this project way to easy for me, and I was looking to challenge myself throughout this project, while plastic sculpture remained an option. Hoping to find other materials I could use, I began researching and stumbled across a site that reminded me that papier mache could be used to create sculptures (http://www.ultimatepapermache.com/paper-mache-recipes). It took me some time to decide whether to use papier mache or plastic …show more content…
In the end, I decided to use plastic tape, as I had previously worked with papier mache numerous times throughout primary school, and I had never used tape to create any sort of sculpture or any form of artwork. Therefore, I choose to work with plastic tape as it was something new, therefore challenging. In addition, I also chose to work with plastic tape, as it would make emphasising certain part of the final product easier, as the whole human body would be made out of the same type and colour of tape. Whereas the papier mache would include newspapers with different colours, images, and text, which would make emphasising other parts of the sculpture difficult. Instead of using the handcuffs to cuff the hands of the sculpture as planned on the draft, I decided to use ropes to tie the hands, because I found that finding handcuffs was difficult. I also decided not to add hair to the sculpture, because if there were to be hair, then it would be emphasised, however would serve no purpose as the hair wouldn’t be able to convey any of the messaged I intended for my artwork to convey. Throughout step 4, I created 1 prototype, which was a hand sculpture made up of two types of