After assembling the case, I drew the opening on the top. I wanted it to look vaginal so it's a little discomforting when reaching into it to get the belt buckle. It's also relating to the cat on my belt buckle. I made the inner lid of the box by adding little feet to it so it won't slide around while it's inside the bigger lid. I used the jigsaw to cut the openings out of the inner lid and the outer lid of the box. I made a small holder for the buckle at the bottom of the case so the buckle isn't just moving around the case. I sanded all 3 parts of the case. I spray painted the inside of the outer lid pink and the case and inner lid the nonbinary colours: purple, yellow, black, and white. I want it to feel weird when people reach into the box, so I put in some different materials and textures. I included t shirts, string, yarn, beads, socks, pipe cleaners, among other things. The best part of the inside are the bags of squishy stuff inside. I filled cling wrap with cut up gel air fresheners, hair gel, and conditioner. Some of them were spilling so I really hope those don't break inside the box.
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Here are some of my ideas for my belt buckle. I really want to use a cat head because I love them and it can be used to make a political and social statement. I decided on the cat head on top of a rectangular base. I cut the shapes out of cardboard to see how it might look together.
Nick Cave earned his MFA at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1989. He also attended North Texas State University from 1984-1986, and before that earned his BFa at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1982. Pictured above are his "Soundsuits" which blend fashion and sculpture. These suits were originally inspired by the Rodney King beating and serve as metaphorical suits of armor. The suits conceal the wearer's race, gender, and class so the audience doesn't have any kind of bias toward the piece.
Nick Cave works with choreographers and dancers to create unique experiences. The suits are very colourful and are made from many different materials. They have many different textures and each suit is different and has its own feeling. If he were in our class, he would probably make his belt buckle very colourful and maybe have it make some kind of noise. I think he would focus more on the case. He would probably make it very fun, adding a lot of different items and textures onto it. His Soundsuits are more about what's on the outside than what's on the inside. Diana Al-Hadid was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1981. She moved to Ohio at age 5 and now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Al-Hadid earned her BA in art history and a BFA in sculpture from Kent State in 2003. She earned her MFA in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2005. In 2007, she attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her art explores the tension between mass and gravity. It is almost like some kind of science fiction architecture. Some of her works look as though they are melting, though they are solid sculptures. Her sculptures are very interesting to me and I love her use of space.
I included images of three of my favourite sculptures by Diana Al-Hadid. The first is a sculpture called Antonym. I think the contrast of the colours is really appealing. The second sculpture is called Liquid City. I really love Al-Hadid's use of space in this piece. The last one is called The Vanishing Point. I love the space she put under the "steps" and the way she designed the figure is very interesting and different. If Diana Al-Hadid was in our class, I think her trophies would have a lot of space and probably play with mass and perspective. Maybe she would have the trophy balancing on something to create tension or maybe make it look melted. To finish up my trophies, I wrapped cord around the legs so they would look more like scratching posts. Unfortunately, Michael's ran out of the cord I started with so I had to improvise with a darker cord. I only glued the top and bottom of those so I can replace them with the right type of cord when I get some. I wrapper a piece of ribbon around each can to resemble a label. I used green because it complements the red cat trees. I didn't want to make it look too trophy-ish so I just wrote FAT CAT on the top can on each trophy. I glued the cat toys and bowl to the trophies so they won't fall of. The last thing I did was glue the stacks of cans on top. I'm not totally satisfied with the end result, but I think that's just because of the weird cord I had to use to finish them. Once I get the right cord, I'll fix them and then I'll be able to give them to my cats and my sister's cat.
I wanted to use silver crayons for all of my casts because I wouldn't have to fix the colour, but I honestly don't ever want to use crayons for this again. I melted 48 crayons, but that was only enough to make 4 casts. Luckily, I need 4 casts for the second place trophy, so I can use these for the top of that one and I can use other materials for the other two trophies. I have a few clay casts from my tests and I like how they feel, so I decide to use one for the third place trophy. The wax provided is the most plentiful material that I enjoy using, so I decided to make all of the casts for first place out of the wax. Cleaning up all of the wax and crayon casts was tedious, but worth it. I spray painted all of them metallic silver so they would be unified even though they're all different materials.
I made a second plaster mold of my cat food can because I need 15 cans and having two molds will make this project go by a lot faster. This mold turned out much better than the first one, but I forgot to add a drain hole so Leticia helped me by drilling one into the side for me.
I made my test casts out of clay. The cast is definitely not perfect, but the main issue is the top which isn't even that bad aside from the extra bump and the rim of the can, which I think was just too thin. After making the first three with clay, I made one with wax and I like that method a lot more, so I will probably use wax for the final project.
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