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Valerie Vanderkolk
Project 2 Written Response (yarn and wire sculpture)
3D Form
Professor ------
March 22, 2009

01. The purpose of this project is to explore how line can be created and used in space to create a dynamic form. It shows how lines on paper can be transformed into 3D forms.
02. This piece gives a sense of gravity and plays off of what the container was based on, a pill bottle.
03. The piece is suspended from the ceiling and is just below head height.
04. Over spring break, the piece and I talked a great deal about cross contour lines.
05. One of the successes of the piece is the surfacing material and how it added even more form and color to the piece.
06. I am not sure whether or not the surfacing supports the overall point of the assignment because I went about surfacing the piece differently than the examples.
07. I feel that this piece is complete and that there is not another element that I can add to it that would continue on in the same vein of the work. If I were to re do the work from scratch I would make the container unit larger.
08. I would not alter the piece outside of the assignment, because I feel that this idea has gotten to its stopping point and I am ready to abandon it, but I did enjoy working with the surfacing material (perhaps a little too much) and also figuring out a way to systematically work with the wire.
09. Coat hanger wire is actually a much stronger gauge of wire that I thought, even the light flimsy coat hangers. While writing this critique, I learned that buttermilk is not a good substitute for milk in coffee.
10. I dyed some yarn that I had, which originally was a mixture of baby blanket colors all puked together on one skein. I dyed the yarn an orange pumpkin color and while I was dying it, I was reminded of the hamsters my old roommate’s boyfriend had. He would spend more time at our house than his own apartment, but he had two hamsters that lived at his place. After coming home after being at our house for a couple of days, he walked in on one of the hamsters eating some strange stingy matter that was once the other hamster. Ironically, the cannibal hamster died shortly after this because it had gotten so fat that it got stuck trying to come out of its hamster house.