#pointlessstuff

Project: An Idea, Maybe

The sculpture I made for the workshop has an empty looking head, which also looks like a giant eye. This made me think about how everything we ‘like’ on social media is being watched, and our timelines are covered with advertisement for things that we might like and would buy, therefore fuelling our materials souls. This link into the use of cardboard as it is material used for packaging, and the boxes our online shopping comes in. Also, the use of surveillance on social media links into the giant eye looking head of my sculpture, which sort of has a surveillance camera shape to it. My idea for this project was to make loads of these character sculptures, which would all look the same, reflecting the internet and how its algorithms only see people as a mere number in its calculations. All the sculptures would also be made by hand, which would have been a long, boring process, to contrast the fast paced internet and manufacturing world.

I started making another sculpture in exactly the same way but I decided to cut out the heart of the sculpture, stick colourful marbled paper to it and hang it above its head. I also made a cardboard phone with a screen that has ‘buy me’ written on it and stuck it through the characters hands using a cardboard knife. This was to show that we have become soulless consumers and addicts to the internet.

I decided to scrap this idea of making cardboard sculpture because to be honest I was bored of it. But I had another idea.

This idea was to make pointless sculptures out of found material, make professional looking advertisements for them an actually try to sell them to people to see if they would buy my pointless sculptures. This idea came from the people always buying things that are so pointless and unnecessary, and I wanted to test out this theory.