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"How are you living a life not your own?"

Sorry about the poor quality of the photos in advance. The flash really brightened this dark piece and blurred out the detail. Our second project in Spring 2010 ceramic sculpture was a metaphorical piece. The idea for this one came quickly and was supposed to have a second arm pulling gears out but time was running out and I had been putting off work on the sculpture. Professor said he hated looking at it but that at the same time he loved it too as he felt it was a very successful piece. It just disturbed him is all.

The piece is all ceramic with exception to the wood base and two wire chains with screws. A couple of pieces are held in with pieces of a paper clip as well. All pieces are held together with cold glue and a tiny bit of hot glue. The face is actually copied from a plaster mold used in a previous piece and the teeth were formed from pressing clay into my own and creating a clay copy from that. The hand however was sculpted as were the gears and other mechanical parts. Wire chains were created and recycled from a jewelry class in High School.

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The piece is held as a mask in a hand to symbolize ones identity. The dead look in the face is to relate to the quote above. Throughout the piece the colors were specifically chosen as black and white have many representations of emptiness, dull plainness, and death. Not to mention the black is used to show the flaws within the dead-white face; there is still imperfection... Red is used to represent blood dripping all around to give a sense of the pain inflicted as the gears of society are forced within the mind, making the individual just like everyone else.

Coincidentally, while working on this piece I was watching an episode of "King of the Hill" and one of the main characters, Peggy, was looking at what she described to be a"joyless and creepy" nursery her nieces mother-in-law designed as black, white, and red to "to help the baby see, and think..." With Peggy remarking "Really, hmm... I wonder if that's why the Nazi's chose those colors."

Description
"How are you living a life not your own?"

Sorry about the poor quality of the photos in advance. The flash really brightened this dark piece and blurred out the detail. Our second project in Spring 2010 ceramic sculpture was a metaphorical piece. The idea for this one came quickly and was supposed to have a second arm pulling gears out but time was running out and I had been putting off work on the sculpture. Professor said he hated looking at it but that at the same time he loved it too as he felt it was a very successful piece. It just disturbed him is all.

The piece is all ceramic with exception to the wood base and two wire chains with screws. A couple of pieces are held in with pieces of a paper clip as well. All pieces are held together with cold glue and a tiny bit of hot glue. The face is actually copied from a plaster mold used in a previous piece and the teeth were formed from pressing clay into my own and creating a clay copy from that. The hand however was sculpted as were the gears and other mechanical parts. Wire chains were created and recycled from a jewelry class in High School.

Description...
The piece is held as a mask in a hand to symbolize ones identity. The dead look in the face is to relate to the quote above. Throughout the piece the colors were specifically chosen as black and white have many representations of emptiness, dull plainness, and death. Not to mention the black is used to show the flaws within the dead-white face; there is still imperfection... Red is used to represent blood dripping all around to give a sense of the pain inflicted as the gears of society are forced within the mind, making the individual just like everyone else.

Coincidentally, while working on this piece I was watching an episode of "King of the Hill" and one of the main characters, Peggy, was looking at what she described to be a"joyless and creepy" nursery her nieces mother-in-law designed as black, white, and red to "to help the baby see, and think..." With Peggy remarking "Really, hmm... I wonder if that's why the Nazi's chose those colors."