I think I want to work more with traditional sculpture. I really enjoyed working with food and I think it would be fun to work with more types of food. I don't have any specific conceptual ideas yet, though. Lately I have been thinking a lot about decisions, paths, the stepping stones of life basically. One decision leads to another decision, which leads to another, which leads to another. One of the fundamental beliefs I hold is that good short term decisions will lead you down a path that will ultimately bring you happiness and success. For example, I don't do drugs, but have had the opportunity to many times. Each time, I think, "this will not affect the rest of my life. This one act now will probably have nothing to do with what happens to me or where I'll end up in ten years so I should just do it." But that is just a thought that crosses my mind momentarily. I remind myself of the fundamental value I believe in and easily say no. I have never said, "I will never do drugs," because never doing drugs is not the point. I don't know who I'm gonna be in five years, I don't even know who I'm gonna be tomorrow. Nobody does. All I know is that at that particular moment, doing the drug was not gonna be beneficial to me. But who knows, maybe someday it will be. Again, I don't know and nobody else can either. Getting back to the project, I guess what all of this is about is that I would like to do something exploring the choices people make, life paths, directions, regrets because of action, regrets because of a lack of action, and the idea of an finish line. Not everything that I believe in, but what I in addition to other people believe in. For example, I don't believe that happiness is a finish line, I believe it is a lifestyle. Others might disagree and I would like to explore all perspectives if possible.
I have no idea at the moment what kind of sculpture would embody all of this the best.
Technically speaking, I really enjoyed the wood carving. I could do a series of small wooden sculptures of a person at different stages of life. Maybe just shown in different positions representing different stages in life. Or I could do an animal instead a human and give anthropomorphic element to it. I like that. It is done a lot, however. But that's okay. It's not like the peeps at Disney said, "No we can't make a movie about talking lions, we already used the talking animal idea."
Okay after getting all of these thoughts out I feel better. I think I will further explore the wooden sculpture idea. A series of figures would best represent my concept I think. I'll think about other materials I could use as well. I could make the figures in clay and then cast them in aluminum or something. I don't know. I don't want anything about the sculptures to be arbitrary.
I am excited for class tomorrow. I would really like to learn how to make casts of the body, hands in particular.
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