Step by step

Final Piece

I set out to make a piece that could hopefully also evoke an emotional response from the viewer.  When I sat down to think of how I was going to carry out my intention I was reminded of a picture I took while traveling this summer.  I was lucky enough to snap a photo of a man who I felt had a weary sense of seclusion and let off this somber air of forlornness.  I used his image and reimagined it into a painting to accentuate his situation and provide a deeper meaning for the viewer.

Second 3D reconstruction

Here I constructed this piece that I thought was a good representation of the helplessness and loneliness I got form the Henry Moore sketch while also referencing his use of texture and repetition with line with the wire in my sculpture.

Finally I landed on a sketch I felt relatively well about. I think it depicted the loneliness and helplessness I was going for.

Sketched Ideas....

Tried a concept where I had 2 pieces working together to form one piece of art, kind of like the homeless man and his dog and the family in the sketch. I liked the idea and I abstracted the forms but the sketches looked really...well not as planned and I felt I was straying away from my original idea.

Kept thinking...

The small wire sculpture didn't satisfy my want to also portray some of the emotions behind the original piece. So instead of going for a straight forward interpretation of Henry Moore's sketch like I did with the wire sculpture, I went a for a little more conceptual route. While looking at Moore's sketch, it reminded me of a picture I quickly snapped of a homeless man in Prague; they both reminded me of the similar emotions.

I started with a quick gesture wire sculpture

This is more of a technical reconstruction. I made this small sculpture emulating the lines and shape of the Moore sketch but it didn't quite have those emotions that also came along with the sketch.

Next Step: 3D reconstruction

From there I went about thinking of how I could reconstruct the 2D sketch three dimensionally while also capturing a bit of the same emotions that were going on in the original sketch. (The emotions the original sketch portrayed, to me at least, were a sense of loneliness, like they were alone in the world, they could only rely on themselves.

Here I looked at how line, texture, and repetition help the eye move around the picture

Positive/Negative Space

Process

I'm starting the deconstruction process by breaking down the piece by it's formal and technical aspects like line, texture, shape, etc.

Beautiful sketch by Henry Moore.

This is the piece I chose to deconstruct.