Summative Project

Here is the sculpture so far. My beginning concept was "layers," like in the layers of thinking a VTS facilitator has to do, and the layers and categories of audience that appear during a session. I wanted to incorporate movement into the sculpture. The figures you see in the video are on hinges, but most do not allow the figures to stand up on their own. I need to go back to the drawing board in the case of the hinges. I have also included some still images of Red Grooms work. When I was thinking of how to construct the figures, I kept thinking of Red Grooms' Ruckus Manhattan, because I have a very ruckus classroom. I was drawn by the caricatures, colors, and business of his work. The figures you see are snapshots of the students'  behaviors.  VTSing with these students has provided an education into their thinking and personalities that I would not see otherwise, for the most part.

At the time of this post, the plaster base is gone, gone to the dumpster. It still hasn't dried, and the marker from the bottom of the figures was starting to seep into the plaster. Most of the hinges have been removed also. My future plans for this work is creating more of an environment, and adding the other people who come in and out of the room during this class period.