Planes

Here is all my preliminary models that I made for our planes project. The outline for this project is that we had to have 4 planes, Base plane - which is the bottom of the plane that would be normally be on the base of the object, a depth plane - which is like a base plane but is the "containment" plane for the base plane generally is above the base plane. We had to have a portrait and landscape plane. Additionally we had to have an exterior and interior space and a hole in one of the planes. In the beginning I had a hard time with how to make an exterior I kept thinking as long as there is something I thought of was an exterior I was okay. But I soon realized that making an exterior had to do a specific thing. How I though of an exterior and what I kept telling myself was to "make a corner of a cube". It had to 'keep people out' in a sense to become an exterior. once I got that down I played with a few principles that I learned from 2-d and our solids project. I played with attitude of the planes, spatial intervals, inscribing, connection types and a few others. I love the look of inscribing and decided I wanted to take that and make it a very big process of my sculpture. My final sculpture ended up closely related to the bottom left model that is in my process images.

Here is the final pictures from the planed project. Overall I had a lot of fun designing my sculpture and watching it come together was super cool! I feel like the inscribing I included into the sculpture helped this design in a outstanding way. I ended up painting it even though we did not have to but I did just because I like how it gives it a unified finish and brings out the inscription that are in my piece. I did have an issue with the landscape plane that was the only part that gave me the hardest time. I drilled to far through with the counter sink and had to glue another piece to the base plane to fix my mistake. It worked but then after I glued it in and screwed it I realized after it was too late that it shifted ever so slightly to make it not a 90 degree connection which is something I hope to be able to fix if I can get it unscrewed and unglued. At certain angles it does not affect the piece but if you view it to where it lines up with the 90 degree portrait piece you can tell that it is not at that ideal 90 degrees. I love the look of my sculpture and feel that this is definitely something that could be a large scale work at a park or at a center city park I just wish that I would have saw the mistake before it was too late.