Final Alter Ego

Mother Bird

Describe your intentions. Who is your alter ego? What’s the story behind it? Looking back on your first blog about your alter ego, did it change and how? Does the story and personality come thru and why?This bust represents my alter ego. 

My intention is to make this bust look as real as possible. My alter ego is a person that I have always been looking up to.

She is a my role model

She is amazing

She is my aspirin 

She is the best

She is my backbone

She is unsinkable

She is my hero

She is strong

She is my world

She is MAGNIFICENT

She is ... MY MOM.

To me, she is the most beautiful whenever she is happy and whenever she is smiling. She is good at handling stress. Whenever my mom stresses out, she doesn't want me and my sister to know. She just stays calm, put on a big smile and slowly solve the problems. And by putting a smile on the bust will personify her character. 

And yes, this bust is still my mom, but what I did change was the object I wanted to add on. I initially wanted to do a superman cape on her back but the idea of adding on a bird nest sounds better to me. The bird nest here is a symbol of nurturing just like birds do. And there are two eggs, one is me and the other is my sister. She always put us before her. She gave us every best that she could. There isn't enough word to say how awesome my mom is to me. 

Explain a bit of the process used and the challenges you faced.  Did you achieve what you wanted? Is the work what you expected?

HS Art show

The challenge that I faced in the process of making this bust was to make the eyes look real. Eyes are really difficult to get them right as the human eye sockets are much deeper inside and the ratio between the the eyeballs and the face need to be accurately measured. I am really of my bust how it turned out to be. I put a lot of effort into this bust. This is probably the biggest achievement of mine this semester for this class.  

• Did you enjoy and value working with clay for sculptural purposes rather than functional or do you prefer the functional process?

I did enjoy working with clay for sculptural purposes but to be honest I prefer the functional process. I prefer to throw a pot than to hand build it. I am also a type of person who amaze by the smoothness than the roughness and symmetrical things make me happy.

• Take a photo of another student’s clay bust that intrigues you not because it was made by your friend but because it really stands out in your eyes. Explain why it has impact; the form, the story, the expression, the hair, the eyes, the glazes used….React to the work explaining why it has impact.

Kitty's bust

Everytime I walk through the atrium, Kitty's bust probably is the one that I can't take my eyes off. Not because her bust is next to mine, but what really stand out about this bust is the concept that Kitty chose to make hers. She did not do anything like others did. Instead, her bust looks to me is really futuristic, really different and strange in a good way. A story that comes to my mind is that being different doesn't mean that she doesn't have her own voice. I thought that it was very well represented. Her big black eyes from this angle really feel empathy somehow as if she is trying to fit into today chaotic society. And I thought the black parts on her head and on her body are scars left behind from time to time finding her own voice, which represented by the strange language carve on her mouth.