Well I feel like I am off to a great start of my Junior Year. My teacher is Michael Wickerson and I really enjoy having him as a teacher.
He gave our class a mini project that would get us back into the swing of sculpture. The project was based off the concept of the Spirit of Gravity.
I had found a whole dead dragonfly this summer in the middle of downtown Kansas City and it was the first thing that came to mind when Michael stated Spirit of gravity. Dragonflies have many different meanings but the ones that mean the most to me are the fact that dragonflies have 360 degree vision, symbolizing self-realization. Recently I had been going through a period of self-realization of lots of actions and ideas in my life. So I decided to build a wood object that would frame the dragonfly. Also in this period of self-realizations, I was feeling lots of tension - pushing and pulling, mentally and physically.
So I decided to sew thread through the dragonfly. I went through many sketches of how I wanted to present the dragonfly. I found myself in love with the process of sewing the dragonfly to this wooden frame system, it felt like a dragonfly sewing machine. When I was fabricating it, i had a drill bit placed on a piece of wood that held the spool of thread. Then I would place the piece horizontally on the back side and thread the needle through the drilled holes, through the dragonfly and then through the other set of drilled holes, pulling a continuous piece of thread. With each thread added there was a lot of pushing and pulling of the dragonfly, in the end the dragonfly has a slight curve to it.
