second maze post-

so i have been looking for qoutes that i could use either literally in the project or just as inspiration-type ideas. i looked for quotes around the idea of decisions, choosing, etc- because in a maze you have to choose your own path- get it? my favorite one is from alice in wonderland- "One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" was his response. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."" - Lewis Carroll
i think that is an awesome quote and im thinking of putting that at the entrance of my maze and then perhaps putting something different at every dead end. i havent exactly decided on what to put at the ends or what to out at the end, depending on what i decide.

oh yea, and here are pictures of myproject in process. because you know, the process of making some is an art too (rees, you know you like that).
the next step is to take the orage screen and drap it across the top. and then start hanging the "walls" ofthe maze in the desired way.
i think im going to try to go to murry hall tomorrow morning before class and liberatethis stuff i saw there today when i was going to class. it looked like it could be used as a floor, if i wanted one.
thats all i got for now.
-mark

Maze

The project is to create a room that can be inhabited. and I sort of moved away from that idea... My project idea now consists of the follwing materials:
PVC pipes- I had originally planned on borrowing this from the Hillel Theatre Company, who I worked with on their last play (I helped build sets and such) but I had trouble finding it. Luckily, I found exactly the pipe I needed in the junkyard behind the LAB.
Orange Mesh- this stuff i found in the big studio room at the LAB but the weird thing is that I had been looking for something exactly like itbefore I knew it existed- I had my plans for this project and I had even written down that I was looking for some sort of mesh or netting. Weird.
Lots of Black fabric- I looked in alot of cheapo stores and eventually bought alot of window treatment for cheap at Shoppers World.
>There is no solid concept for this but the idea is to create a maze of some sort. The fabric will hang has walls of the maze and it will hang from where I choose on the orange mesh. The mesh will be suspended between the PVC pipe structure and the wall. The fabric is semi-transparent which could add or take away from the effect. There is still a chance I may change the project as I built it. I have already changed it someone as the materials changed, etc.
This is just a picture i took from the internet but the idea is that this will be what it looks like from above. each line is the fabric. The start will be the entrance and the end will be the corner of the area- it is not an exit to the maze- it is the end of the maze. I have not decided what it is that will be at the end of the maze. I have several ideas so far.

Past Sculpture Projects

So I guess I'll actually start posting on this. I've never posted a blog or anything like it before so it might come out awkward. My name is mark, i'm a freshman at rutgers- this blog is for sculpture 1.
So my sculpture experience only really goes back a year and a half- my senior year i had a few really good teachers and I made some cool art. And first semester this year I had sculpture one with Rees and I made three final projects- only one of which I really thought was a good, solid, finished project.
As far as mediums go- I worked with metal last semester for the first time and i really enjoyed it. its an awesome material with really great potential. Wood i can work with but I don't like it so much- i guess I might use it for the framework for the project im working on now but I don't like wood for the sculpture itself because it has no flexibility, no great features, it chips, rots, splinters, and just doesn't do it for me. I like ceramics, carving plaster was cool, and I like doing mixed media, found objects, that type of stuff.
(writing this blog is weird. i want to say that i feel like im just going on and on, but thats what its for).
Anyway, Here is a link to a photo album of all my sculptural work (its not everything but most of it). When you get to the site, click the big picture (you don't have to sign in) and you'll see all the pictures with my comments. I'll eventually post the pictures in the blog but there are too many pictures to do that.
I'm done now, post comments or more likely questions about any projects or anything in general here or just ask me in person.
~mark

A Good Beginning Post-

Instead of starting my blog with a real post, I'll just post this cartoon:~mark