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The creation of this sculpture holds a symbolic meaning to me and the deep emotions I have felt in these past few years regarding to "wilting" away of my hair and the dysphoria regarding my face. To begin, the wilting flowers on my hair in the sculpture, emphasizes on the wilting, represents my hair throughout the years going from golden blonde, thick, and a curl pattern that got compliments left to right to now a light brown hair, frizzy, and a changed curl texture. Looking at older pictures, I felt as those that hair made me the most confident in my body and I felt pretty in front of a camera. Now is the compete opposite where my confidence has lowered and I am very insecure in terms of being in front of the camera, rather now I am solely behind it. though I feel less confident than I did before, the flowers arranged an organized pattern represent my need to still feel as though I need to take my parents regardless of how I feel internally.  Secondly, the facial structure of my person is made in order to look warped in terms of a large eyes, a misplaced small nose and a larger forehead in order to provide the message that the change in the years wasn't only in my hair but the way I view my face. Due to rarely taking pictures anymore, each photo I do take, I feel as those there is a different person in from of the camera every time. The stemming tears coming from my eyes represent this feeling along with no pupil being there meaning that sometimes I’d rather not see myself at all.This project has allowed me to open up about my insecurities, learn techniques of sculpture, and learn how to use clay in the correct way.

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To begin with the hair, a tutorial on youtube gave me the boost I needed in order to construct a wild/curly texture in my sculpture piece. I began by randomly adding little and big chunks of clay and smoothing them out where there was still volume, but there was leeway for carving the hair. I then took a tool and began to drag it across to give some depth and to separate the hair strains and create texture. I then added in flowers on top to provide the message of my sculptire.

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The Creation of the Eyes and Putting together the face

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The Creation of the Eyes and Putting together the face

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I was able to watch a tutorial that was provided by Mr. Stout in order to figure out the initial caved in circle with a small oval on either side near the tear duct. I then put a small ball and using the eye tool provided I was able to make a football shaped eye. I then created the eye crease at the top when the eye is opened by using that same tool and dividing a chunk out to get sunken in eyelids. Lastly, I put them on the face, cleaned them up, and added didn't add pupils, instead I added leafs going down my face in order for the message of my project to get across.

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The nose I constructed multiple times until I saw fit. To begin, I tried to look at my nose n order to gain a shape, but it was hard to visualize the nostrils and the side profile so I tried to mimic those. Then I got a nose model which I took inspiration from, cut pieces out + carved some in and I got more of a nose shaped structure. Throughout the next couple days that I was building face structures, I changed my nose many times in order to end up with the final product. I got 2 small balls for the nostrils and one large log like rectangle for the nose bridge.

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To begin this process, I cut up circles for my internal base, poked out a pattern with a pen, and cut out large triangles. The base was created first, then I stuck small leave like structures onto the side to support the large petals which I bent backwards to give the look of wilted/dying plants.

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Though this side profile face structure wasn't used in my final project, this took up a large amount of my time and helped me with depth perceptions and dimensions of a face when not drawn in 2d. This process began by tracing out my reference image and then drawing part where I could identify a subtraction and addition. Secondly, I added clay and worked on the nose for a few days until I liked the result, drew a nose line, and dug in my nostrils. Then, I worked on the lips which proved unsuccessful in my sculpture process so I transitioned to adding on clay in order to define the cheekbones, nose, forehead, and eye sockets.

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The Production of my Circular Background

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The Production of my Circular Background

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The building process of this structure took 2 large slabs of clay along with an internal 1 long piece stretching from top to bottom and 2 smaller pieces for structure of the sides conversing with the middle of the structure. I made these slabs to support the weight, enable my project to dry without caving in, and to support the circular shape. My canvas was a circle based on my idea having a face structure and hair expanding outwards which needed a circle to give more length so the hair can stretch, than width a square would normally give.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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Possibly flowers instead of hair, falling out/ growing back. Wilted flowers in the head!

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A low profile sculpture of half a face looking upwards and hair is wilting tulips symbolizing my insecurity of my hair.