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.

My sculpture is gonna be a dichotomy with a psychological reason. My forearm gun is used as a violent object in a virtual world, but it is made out of a non violent material in the real world, and/or making a metal-like machine from a man made paper material(cardboard).The extension purpose of this sculpture is for protection, its a virtual futuristic weapon that is an extension outside the body.

These were some early sketching designs that I thought up for my forearm gun idea. Originally I wanted to just make forearm guards but I was inspired by the concept that it could be from a virtual world. The gun I chose to model is on the bottom right side of the picture. It has some complications but I believe I can make the pieces of cardboard beneath look like a real or futuristic weapon. So far it has been successful in making the model but painting it and attaching it to the forearm armor might be a challenge along the way.

Created by Emil Alzamora. In his sculptures he utilizes the bodies limitless shape and creates work that expresses the human form at any point in our lives.  This sculpture just screams body extension to me, not in a sense of a body part being extended but the fact that the sculpture itself is an example of the body being stretched and expanded.

Created by Some girl from DeviantArt. This reminded me of Star wars and some of the characters that have different human forms, including extended body parts. This inspired to me to not only think of extending existing body parts but creating body parts that are different.

 Trial and Error mask,

I wanted to capture the irony of organic and man made materials with this mask. I wanted the man made material such as the metal and plastic to convey an organic shape that is sharp. I wanted the organic natural material to portray a geometric shape such as squares, rectangles, and cylinders.






The reason for geometrical shape on right side of the mask is supposed to represent a content, calm feeling.  

The sharpness of the man made materials is supposed to inform the viewer that this side has a mad, angry feeling.









Unfortunately I was not able to finish this mask but I was able to note that the plaster wrap texture does not hold plastic material very well. Also the edges need to be plaster wrapped to reinforce the strength of the mask.

Overall the sculpture at first was hard to combine together, but we managed to make it stand on its own. On Thursday the weather played a factor into the way we set up; the wet walls made it difficult to stick out body parts onto it. Once my partner and I figured out a way to stick them we our display got more attention. Not only did the colors grab students attention but the positions and poses of our sculpture got them to stop and stare. The title of the sculpture is Exceeding Expectations, the wall represents the average expectation and the people coming out of the wall are breaking away from expectations. The bodies are in a way coming out and exceeding expectations. The blue is closer to the wall because its the closest to the average while the color red appears the farther away you get from the wall. This represents the individual shining and coming to there own. The peoples' reactions varied from just walking by and looking at our sculpture to stopping and admiring it while asking questions. From what I saw the color drew peoples attention and the pose kept them there trying to figure out what the sculpture was saying.  Overall we got nothing but compliments from the students walking around admiring our sculpture.

While the sculpture was on display the water on the wall was an issue but my partner and I found a way to overcome the obstacle. I feel the concept of emerging from the wall is well displayed.

Spray painting the tape made a nice effect. The color attracted the attention of the viewers and made it stand out in the environment it was in. The blue and red affect gave a nice warm cold feeling to the sculpture.

Tapping each body part together to create the whole body was difficult. The individual parts weren't sturdy so we had to fill it with rolled up plastic wrap. The waist line was hard to tape together because it was the main support of the upper body.