Pedestal project

this was my last project for Core Studio. It was due two weeks before the due date of Research studio’s final project, but I forgot to post on my blog, so here I am, posting about my wonderful pedestal project.

Well, the assignment was make a 3D object with pedestal. So what you were supposed to do was make a sculpture and design the your own pedestal that goes well with the actual sculpture.  I fully understood the assignment on the critique day, after I saw all my classmate’s work.  I was the only one who built the actual, literal pedestal in the class. Everyone else (except one other classmate) made the pedestal into the sculpture, and borrowed the actual, rectangular pedestal from somewhere else, maybe from FYP.

And here it is, the work in progress of my beautiful pedestal, in woodshop.

starting from measuring, cutting woods and gluing them together and shooting nail gun was not simple tasks that you could finish in one sitting. All those work took me all the free times through out the whole week, and I finished painting it the day before the critique day. Which was not a great thing because I still had to make my actual sculpture piece. It was good thing that I had an idea what I was going to do.

here is my pedestal, behind my research class room, and it was painted in egg shell white color. hmm..what’s all that egg trays in the back? oops, that was my  huge cinnamon roll project. yes, I had to torn that apart that day before it gets fully destroyed before.

For the sculpture, we were supposed to pick an object and create something out of it, or recreate with different object.  This assignment was given after the Huge Cinnamon Roll Project, and I had some left over egg cartons from it. Therefore all I could think of was egg carton, and I decided to recreate egg carton with a cloth and some cottons.

We were supposed to make an mind map, and my mind map lead me into the word, Couch, from an egg carton. the reason was, since egg carton protects from egg to break, it must be very steady, and comfy.  What is comfortable? when I thought of the word comfyness (which is not a word..haha) I always thought of the couch in our house in NY. so I decided to make a couch for the egg.  Which is egg carton that is very coushiony. (actually one of my teacher also suggested make a sofa for an egg. it was a good call: ) )

so now, here it is, my egg and egg couch and my beautiful pedestal.

details

I know that it does not look like an cushion, or couch at all.  Believe me, I spent whole night struggling with sewing machine, which I never used it before,  to create this some… creature. I was embarrassed when I put that in the middle of the class room and compared with other sculptures.  Mine looked like a joke, because I knew that it took only a night to finished it. And I felt like I was such an idiot because I spent too much time on building the pedestal, which you could have just borrowed from FYP office.

But when everyone started to talk about my piece, I was very surprised and became delighted because they said my sculpture looked like a Tim Button’s creature.  They said my “egg carton”(supposedly..) seems as if it is alive and would start walk around the class. And when they found out that I made a pedestal and applied same color as an egg on the top of the creature, they even gave me applause.  I was shocked, and rather relived that many of them liked my piece.. Laura, our instructor even mentioned that she could see the care of my sewing process.

I learned one few things from this project.. I was lucky this time, but next time, I would not be lucky as this time, so I should read the assignment more carefully and not do the work at the last minutes.

by the way, I enjoyed sewing them together.. maybe I might make my own pillow next time..; )