Design II

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Soap Carving

~The Carving Process~

Finished Carving

Second Sculpture

~Additive & Subtractive Process~

I added metal eyelets to the sculpture (additive)

I then added sticks in the center of the eyelets (additive)

Pulling vines from a bush, I weaved them in between the sticks (additive)

Then, I picked up broken beer bottle pieces on the ground and stuck them in the soap (additive)

By adding the sculpture into bleach I subtracted color from the vines (subtractive)

I put the sculpture in a frying pan with rubbing alcohol and lit it on fire, subtracting the leafs (subtractive)

I then chopped off the limbs (subtractive)

I then threw away all of the glass pieces and put all of the other pieces in a plastic bag, wrapping it in tin foil (subtractive & additive)

After I wrapped it up I added more heat and plastic causing it to melt (additive)

The final product ended up as this figure

The memento reading was very morbid. The fact that children and babies were dropped off and compiled into one place was inhumane. I was reminded of Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World, where human beings were being mass produced in a lab. Nobody was informed of what life truly was because it was being hidden from them. All of their actions were predetermined, and if anyone questioned the government they would be killed. The whole idea of cramming and selecting infants reminded me of the mass production of them in the novel.