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This is where it was too thin to fit another antenna through

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The last hole for the last antenna was too thin to hollow out so i poked through it and just discarded the last antenna

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I wanted to add a little more detail to the antenna eye and put these little scales on the back

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Heres the birds eye view of my teeth and legs

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I wanted to make an eye come out the back like an alien

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Here’s finishing the other two legs

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I didn’t know if I wanted to fit 6 or 8 teeth but i chose 6 just to be safe

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I needed to use the scooping tool to make the toes and details of the feet

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I got an idea from my friend to make this weird alien and put these teeth inside the bowl

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My thumb fell off in this picture, so i slip and scored it and then worked on going over my fingers, making sure the lengths are accurate and their volume are as well

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Used the calipers to measure my fingernails and trace them out on my hand

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Finalized shaving down and rounding the whole hand out

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Started shaving down to the center of each finger

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Traced out the center lines so i can shave down the fingers to the center and round it out later

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Began the process of making my hand and cutting it out of the block of clay

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Had to use stock paper to glue the string add ons to the back of the mask

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Finished wrapping rope around the mask, added nails into it to make it unique and known as something made by me, and added the string on the back of the face

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I heard from my classmate that using painter sticks would help my mask from bending anymore

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Got more rope and wrapped it around the tentacles on the bottom

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This was an idea i never got to execute, but i used this photo as a reference so i can make this metal hand gouging out of the right eye by using metal wiring.

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Started doing add ons and wrapping rope around the ear and doing some bead work to make earrings

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Painted flames around the mouth as well to fill those plain areas

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Added more coats of red on the areas i painted red already and wanted to go for a joker look on the face

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Thought it looked plain just having red paint only so i painted a white flame to match the cultural part of the mask

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Wanted to have a bloody look on the mask and decided to use red paint

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Painted the beans and added white to make the contrast of the mask

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Finished with the painting process of my mask now

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Went with the simple choice to paint my mask black and use white dots on the beans

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Added beans all over the face of the mask

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Wanted to add the beans on top in order to make the separation and abstraction of my mask

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Plastered the whole mask. Didn’t have enough though because i had to catch up and ended up with the bad end of the plaster supply unfortunately

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More wheat pasting over the joints of the pieces in the mask

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Wheat pasted over the joint part of the ear and tentacle pieces to cover them and make it smooth

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Cut open the mouth and eyes of my piece and wheat pasted over them.

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Continued to struggle preventing the bending of the mask

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i stuck the tentacles and ear pieces in my mask and figured out the placement

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Went over the spiders mouth with more wheat paste to secure it

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Hardest part of this project was getting this small link of the two parts of my mask to stop bending. i tried wheat pasting it over and over to harden and keep it from bending

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All of the the tentacles i chose to stick on the bottom half of my mask and then the smaller pieces as my ears

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Made a thicker layer for the ears and tentacles. Difficult making them flat but i managed and made them smooth as possible

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decided to throw away the spider idea and wanted to make a regular face mask so i made these tentacle parts and chose to use them as ears

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started wheat pasting the back of my mask

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Started going over the mask with another layer and used better wheat paste consistency to really dry it out and make sure it was hard

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Hard to wheat paste between these spider mouth but i managed to and got it

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Keep on wheat pasting the mask

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Need to focus on the open holes of the wheat pasted newspaper along the bottom edge

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Starting to wheat paste the bottom part of the mask, making sure i press down on the edges of the newspaper scraps

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Starting to tape down the newspaper mass and made sure to not use so much

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Building mass for the whole mask mow

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Began building the mass of my project. I realized i probably added more newspaper to prevent it from moving when it was time to wheatpaste

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It was a little hard to figure out how to not use too much tape, but get the mass to build up at the same time

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Stuffing and getting all the newspaper clumped up together on the card stock

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I structured and taped my card stock together and now it’s time to start building the mass of the mask

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More side views of a spiders body to help me

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Once I got the card stock down, I needed a 3D side view to visualize how to build the newspaper mass for the spiders body

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I started looking up different spiders and what their bodies look like to pick which one would fit best for me to do

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This was the template for my card stock paper and trying to figure out how to draw an accurate spiders body

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Reference to add that bloody effect to my masks face

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Thought it would be cool to replace the spiders legs with scorpion stingers instead

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I wanted to go for a creepy looking face and thought of this as a starter and see if I wanted something else from this idea

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My idea at the start was to create a spiders body with the mask and put the face on the upper part of the body

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First step was to paper mache our mask

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i had to clean off where i originally slip and scored bu using a carving tool to scrape it off the flat slabs

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i should’ve seen this coming, but i failed to meet the 12 inch requirement because it wasn’t a strong enough support and it fell off overnight

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here’s where i added another slim jim piece curved on its side to meet the number of slabs required to used for the project 

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here’s a close up of the rainbow curved slim jim pieces. i had to put force that went against the force of me hammering down the small pieces so the flat slabs wouldnt smash down and break

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if you look on the flat slab to the left, i added some rainbow curved slim jim pieces that connect to the base. unfortunately, most of the piece broke off on both of them

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here’s when i finally reached 12 inches and was so proud of it. i added more small pieces as well. but i had one or two small pieces break off and i had to just take it off from it

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i realized at this point i should have slip and scored those small pieces on top the flat slabs before slip and scoring them on top the negative space walls

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this is just another view of my progress to the 12 inch height requirement. the small extra pieces are all from my broken apart negative space slab i used that was intentionally for another purpose

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I went ahead and added a sort of bridge to connect the two pieces on the bottom to make it look cool and weird at the same time

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this was the piece i wanted to meet the requirement of 12 inches tall. so i just took one of my slim jim slabs and put an improvised negative space slab on top 

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i started stacking my flat slabs on top the walls and wanted to do like a house sort of structure just to be safe. slipping and scoring those pieces though took some time and was difficult for me

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it was hard to slip and score the curvy piece in the very middle because i had to be careful of where to hammer down the piece or it would smash

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i started slipping and scoring my negative space walls and used the improvised negative space slabs as their own piece on the sculpture. that small piece in the middle of the negative space slabs was it’s own piece until it broke off and turned into a flat small piece

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i changed my mind though on the base and stuck to one huge one because Mr. Stout made a good point on how the sculpture could be in leveled and break off

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this is a failed idea. i was thinking of doing a split base and build on two different bases that would connect

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this is an update to all the pieces i have organized and planned out for my slab sculpture 

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because some my planned negative space walls broke into improvised pieces, i made multiple slabs so i can start drying them and have them at the right stage to slip and score them

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i wanted to include some more wall pieces that i could use to stack a regular slab on top the two and i learned from here that my negative space designs were too close to the edge of the wall

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my slab walls broke off into pieces so i had to improvise and use what i had

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i wanted to create something totally random. abstract. and with no plan. so i started making slabs and wanted to create these designs on them as walls

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This is a reflection of my experiences on love. There might be corny meanings to my project but I don’t care because I put a lot of effort into this. Each piece I made represents an impact the experiences had on me and what I was feeling in those moments of my past. I hope that my project would be able to be relatable for other people who’ve experienced difficulty with love, self-love, or other forms of it. I wanted to create this as a reminder for myself too that I’m here now and that I’m stronger and improved than the person I was before.

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Finally, I had to compress the slip into the slipped and scored areas to secure the shards more. Some glass shards already fell off because of not pressing down that slip

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I looked at the heart and saw there wasn’t enough design on it to fill the space so I expanded the tree growth design all over to make it look like broken

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I had to secure the glass shard on the stopwatch with slip and then shave out the extra dried slip in each crevice of the droopy piece

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I focused on the stopwatch and carved in the traced lines I made before

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I had to clean off the bottom edges of each glass shard and letter piece

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Instead of making an L piece to slip and score onto my wall, I wanted to do it as my background and decided to carve it in

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After putting on the glass shards, I cleaned up all the leftover boogers with a sponge