The Sculptural Book


This class was one of my favorites so far in the four years that I have been taking classes at the Corcoran College of Art & Design. 


Our second project centered around the key words: 


food, survival, extremes 


In this project we make our own plaster molds and then paper cast the mold to make our finished project.
My project became an old fashioned lunch box in which I would take all the most important things with me that I would not want to live without. 


The making of the mold was a huge challenge, and I ended up remaking it several times before I got one that I could use. 


Inside this lunchbox I put in a needlefelted sewing machine, a polymer clay camera, drawing of my husband Bob, a small quilt, a small tea mug with a tea bag and a small book with dust jacket. 

                                                                                         

All items in the lunchbox were completely made by me except for the mug. The needlefelted sewing machine was made on a small wire frame, wool added bit by bit and  into the the sewing machine. 










With the book I scanned some pages of one of my favorite books, Outlander, reduced the size of the pages, scanned and reduced the dust jacket and sewed it all together. 

If you have good eyesight you can actually read each page. 

I refashioned the tea bag and made it smaller, also scanned and reduced the image of the tag on the tea bag, and reduced it in size.

The small quilt speaks for itself. It's small.

And lastly, the polymer clay camera. 

And here is a drawing I did of my most favorite person... the one whom I would take with me anywhere.(Although it was drawn several years ago, I actually caught the almost crossed eye... his signature expression found in most photographs of him. He does it just for fun. Ahem.)


Bob




Got an A- for the final grade. And that is because I left the paper cast white. I didn't realize we were to also put a patina on it until I reread the project guidelines, a half hour before the critique... no time to work on it by then.