BODIES: BEGINNING SCULPTURE (SPRING 2022)

Robertas Antinis, 2002

Either way, just like my first project, I did learn a lot and although it didn't come out quite perfectly like I'd hope it was still a great learning experience.

Plastic Project Video: Memories

Doris Salcedo

"I asked myself, Who am I? I am nothing. So I asked what people said about women. I appropriated the identity of others.” -Annette Messager As promised, here's a follow-up on Annette Messager

— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

Blindfolded and disoriented by the darkness of the night, I attempt to build up a series of horizontal metal bars which are supported by a large metal frame outside of the viewfinder. To the viewer, all that is seen is a blacked-out faceless figure stumbling through space to complete a simple task, moving slowly and lacking confidence. In the end, the figure seems to be trapped within the frame, literally. In each of these videos, the completion of one daunting task is met by yet another one.

Blindfolded and disoriented by the darkness of the night, I attempt to build up a series of horizontal metal bars which are supported by a large metal frame outside of the viewfinder. To the viewer, all that is seen is a blacked-out faceless figure stumbling through space to complete a simple task, moving slowly and lacking confidence. In the end, the figure seems to be trapped within the frame, literally. In each of these videos, the completion of one daunting task is met by yet another one.

Blindfolded and disoriented by the darkness of the night, I attempt to build up a series of horizontal metal bars which are supported by a large metal frame outside of the viewfinder. To the viewer, all that is seen is a blacked-out faceless figure stumbling through space to complete a simple task, moving slowly and lacking confidence. In the end, the figure seems to be trapped within the frame, literally. In each of these videos, the completion of one daunting task is met by yet another one.

Exploring the concept of the body being in a constant state of breakdown, renewal, and preservation, this work demonstrates the end result of a bodily form that has been physically broken down, re-molded, and ultimately plunged into a jar of Jell-O. The process of purposely breaking down the plaster cast to haphazardly put it back together in a bucket of Jell-O resembles how the human body kills off cells to create new ones. Just as in the human body, as time goes on the forms begin to break down and eventually come to a place of rest.

3. 1:1: Video #3