Virtual Protection                                                                                                                                                                                                                          First my concept ideas was creating wings because it felt like an obvious body extension, but i realized that a forearm gun such as iron man is also an extension from the body. Deciding what the dichotomy would be was a struggle because once I had the idea to make a forearm gun I ran with it. As I thought about the gun more and more I realized that the gun is is not a real and is made up only in games or movies.  Then I came up with the concept creating a violent object(gun) out of non violent material( cardboard, plaster, tape). And a sub concept is playing with virtual and reality. The virtual being the futuristic forearm gun and making it into reality.

The end result for this sculpture turned out excellent in my opinion. Of course improvement would have made this sculpture better but considering the material I used this gun was believable. The response I got most for my sculpture was "That's Awesome". I observed that most people who saw the sculpture looked at the gun as a whole. Not that much people tried it on which I encouraged and I think that made people misinterpret the concept of the gun.

If I had to do this project again I would definitely add lights to the blue strips on the side of the gun.  Also I would find a better material to smooth out the guns edges because the cardboard wasn't very effective. The most difficult problem with this sculpture was attaching the gun to the fore arm guard. The connection wouldn't stay together so I had to tape it and spray paint over it. I felt that this sculpture has been a fun project and the process I went through to make it was effective. I like how the gun has a  future realistic look. The process of cutting, plastering, taping, painting took some time and it paid off because the result in the end.