Throughout this semester I am getting the opportunity to explore different materials for sculpture/3D pieces. I’m quickly learning what materials I like/dislike and wire is definitely a material I don’t like.
Wire is a very stiff material that can be quite difficult to work with and very frustrating for an impatient artist and I would consider myself an impatient artist. I want my material to work with me and do what I want it to without too much of a struggle. Wire is not a material that will easily bend to an artists will. It takes a lot of patience and careful movements to get it to do what you want. I honestly don’t have the patience needed to choose to work with wire
The sculpture I made out of wire is a representation of a dancer in the middle of dancing. The focus was to really show the movement of the snapshot and to create a clear mass/figure in the wire. I used an image of myself dancing for this, which is something I often choose to do. I do like the concept of taking an image of a dancer in the middle of a dance to create a piece but I prefer doing it in a 2D medium rather than a 3D one.
There are aspects of this piece that I like but I genuinely dislike working with wire and for my art I want to love my piece and the process of making it. In order to love the process I have to really like my material and wire is not that material. There are artists who can make some amazing pieces out of wire and I love seeing them but I won’t be that artist.
