Feeling Bobby Today

No Resting

It's finals week and I feel like I've been punched in the chest about a a dozen times. I love making art, but finals and grad school apps are killing me = /.

Notes on my new series

I spent the night brainstorming and planning out my next series of sculptures. So far I have the conceptual part of it hashed out...

1.LIMBO

-a place of imprisonment

“Killer of Trooper Sentenced to Life in Prison.”

- Nov. 8, 2010 WFTV

2. LUST

-appetite that sways reason

“Fairfield Teacher arrested in sex scandal.”

- Nov. 11, 2010 The Reporter

3. GLUTTONY

-over indulgence with food, drink, addiction etc

"The way I look at it, if you have expensive tastes,

you gotta be preprared for expensive losses."

-Nov. 8, 2010 Charlie Sheen

4. AVARICE & PRODIGALITY

-insatiable greed for riches/ hoarding possessions

“Barefoot Bandit wanted for 3 million in thefts.”

- July 12, 2010 Newsweek

4. WRATH & SULLENNESS

-veangeful, ill-humored

“Let the American people be ready to reap what the white house leaders have sown.”

- June 3, 2009 Osama Bin Ladin

5. HERESY

-opinion contrary to the church

“Homosexuality is a deviation an irregularity, a wound.”

- Oct. 2008 Vatican Official

6. VIOLENCE

-suicide, genocide, etc.

“there's a lot of different forms of violence in our society, and so much of it is rooted in our incapacity to recognize ourselves in each other.”

- April 17, 2007

7. FRAUD

-deceit

“Who is Bernie Madoff? Many Investors Didn’t Ask.”

- Dec. 23, 2008 Time Magazine

8. TREACHERY

-betraying relationships

“Chicago man kills brother over $2 Debt.”

- Jan. 30, 2009 Fox News

Hansel and Gretel

This is my second panel, in progress. I'm going to put hansel and gretel in the scene. This is where they follow the stones back to their home the first time they're abandoned. It's going by oh so slow....

The Divine Comedy

Gustave Doré's illustration to Dante's Inferno



Dante’s Inferno has always had a great deal of influence in my writing. It is the type of literature I thrive to understand and conceptualize through, and now that I revisit it six years after I first read Virgil’s tale I am once again inspired by it.

There has been a great deal of emphasis in my thought process recently on the idea of gluttony and greed, and I now realize that I was revisiting my study of Dante. Graduate school is looming over me and I want to show each program that I have a cohesive vision in my work. I’ve decided to challenge myself in these two coming months to create a unified series based on the nine circles of hell. I can’t wait!

Oops

So this is what is left of my relief nightmare...Yes he once had a body and his forehead was not cracked in half, but disaster struck. I need to be more careful with my pieces = (. He was made out of a new red low-fire sculptural clay I was using. It's shrinks considerably when it's bone dry, and it more brittle than the stoneware I've previously used. Instead of glazing him I decided to test out metallic spray paints on him. The aluminum look isn't working for me, so I'm going to try a more rustic bronze look. I tried the crackle spray, but it looked too arts and crafts for my taste.