Sydney Fisher Art and Design
3D ART
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Thinking back on the items that sat in the same place on the shelves, unmoved and
unnoticed in my childhood home is what drove me to create this piece. A crystal spikey ball that sat in the same place for nineteen years of my upbringing, reflecting the light that would shine through the windows, and for some reason, felt like the most sentimental thing in the room. My dad had told me that he bought it for my mom as a gift when he couldn’t even afford it.
I replicated this sentimental item by creating a mold out of silicon to create the ball that the spikes would lie atop of. I incorporated wood spikes to have a mixed-media feel. The bright pinks and oranges on the ball contrast the wood.
The inspiration behind this work stems from my curiosity witht forms that I had been puzzled by in nature. How is one form in nature able to look so organic and then another appears to be almost mechanical? There seems to be a pattern with design in nature where there are similar shapes in the trees, in the leaves, in the ground, through the water, everywhere. These lines, rings, and designs that I’ve seen in the wild, I wanted to connect with my idea of mechanics and intertwine them. To portray this I would use wood and lights and play with perspective so that viewers would have to look within. I began by taking pieces of wood and cutting them into squares, and then would slowly sand and make cuts into each piece. These pieces I would form into different circles, all with their own thickness, textures, colors, and circumference. I was interested in seeing how forming the pieces in different ways would look as if the wood would be moving. Once I found a place where every wood piece seemed to connect together in a lifelike, but also mechanical way, I glued them in place. I then put lights within that would interact with the wood, the room itself, and the viewer. The lights illuminate the wood, orange tones peek through the thinner wood and through the cracks. The wood changes with the lighting and appears to be alive. This sparks curiosity in the viewer and will lead them to look inside to find the different edges and curves and how the light interacts with it.
Sunday, April 16, 2023
Monday, February 20, 2023
This sculpture came together by curiosity and my drive to bring dark aspects of personality forward through abstraction. The process of creating a work that would invoke a sense of fantasy, danger, and desire, began with simple sketches that would spark excitement in what could be. After making a decision on a sketch that worked best for me, I then thought about how i could manipulate and make choices about materials that had almost the opposite affect of being poisonous, danger. After connecting pieces of foam board to form a bee-hive shaped structure, I went about cutting and melting the foam board. These choices would allow the material to mend together and make for a simple transition into the next step in my process. Layering plaster atop the foam board was a crucial step in my creative thought process. I found that using my fingers to create hair textures in the plaster would aid in the dark, living but unfamiliar mood that I wanted to invoke. I then took thin pieces of foam and chose to stick them into my sculpture. These small and curious pieces would be the factor that tied together my original idea of creating a reflection of my dark inner hidden identity. Lastly, color choice would transform the sculpture into something that catches the eye but warns the viewer simultaneously. Black spray paint wraps around the entirety of the piece and hot pink paint tips stick out from the already questionable thorns.
Monday, December 12, 2022
Momento
Pond
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