Arts Explorer #2 - Instant Sculpture with Found Objects

Mass/Volume element describes the width, height and length of a structure (Schirrmacher & Fox, 2009). The sculpture that I assembled for this blog illustrates the following:
heavy, light, stationary, angular, solid, opaque, hard 

Back-angle

In the beginning, I had some diffculty of the design of the sculpture - what
should I use? How many items? How big/small? Abstract or not. I didn't know what direction to take, so I decided to go with the flow and pick whatever objects I find helpful and decide later what to do with it. As I walked around each room of my house, looking at every object there is, I picked up the following items in each room:



Wooden clothing clips (master bedroom)
Cardboard toilet paper roll (bathroom)
Plastic lid (computer room)
Steel fork (kitchen)
Eyeglasses cleaning cloth (living room)
Small box (my bedroom)

The assembling process was hard as I tried to think of a different way of using these objects. However, I played around with it and tried a couple of models prior to what it is now. Starting from the bottom of the sculpture is the box that serves as a stand/base that holds up everything, although it is light and not very

Side-angle

strong, the angle of the fork, which is the bone of the sculpture, is important to maintain the position of it,

Top-angle

along with the clip that holds the paper roll and fork together. The paper roll is then covered with the cloth to add a smooth texture to it and again, a clip was used to secure it. Finally, the paper roll was placed through a plastic cover to add more dimension to the overall look of the structure.

Front-angle

Schirrmacher, R., & Fox, J.E. (2009). Art & creative development for young children (6th ed.). Belmont, CA: Delmar Cengage Learning.