here is an iron sculpture i made recently from a sand block. i think it’s a pretty standard project for intro 3D design classes. nonetheless, very fun to make, and very fun to see what other people made.
here’s the artist statement i wrote for class: My piece “Origins” is an iron plate, casted from a sand block. It features in one corner a sort of topographical pattern, in another corner many rods shooting up from the base. The center focus is two lipped shapes, with wavy irregular edges. Lots of my art features references to the origins of our creation, or our consciousness. The topographical element represents our interpretations of our surrounding world, and gives the piece a bit of a setting to exist in. The rods spreading out through the piece seem to represent growth, expansion. The coral looking structure in the middle looks perhaps like a mushroom, or some sort of simple multicellular organism, or maybe an algae that provides oxygen for us to breathe. Through the middle of this structure you will find small topographical structures connected by lines. They look to me almost like crop circles, or like a map of a journey from planet to planet, spreading life. This refers to theories that our origins may be extraterrestrial. (i forgot to mention the ribbed thing in the bottom right, which was inspired by baboons)
also, the name is bullshit let me know if you have a better one. sorry i don’t have more detail pics, maybe i’ll get some tomorrow.
