I do not know if we were supposed to print out our response for the core piece so for right now I will just post it to my blog:

This core piece has been a good learning process, I think I really went out of my comfort zone. I am actually really surprised I even got to do what I wanted to do. When we were first prompted for this project I had the same concept but I think the idea of making a prosthesis can be intimidating. I am glad that I sort of went off the deep end on this one. I realized I learned a lot on how to problem solve. I had to ask at least fifteen people how to solve issues concerning the gear piece that I created. Starting out I had issues with figuring out how the gears would even work, and for that I talked to about four different people. I am pretty thankful that I have the resources I have because I wouldn’t have been able to create it without the help of others. I used many resources in the library for this piece, and looked up books about Dadaism, Surrealism, performance art and human anatomy. This was also the first time I have ever used wire. I am no expert by any means, but I did get much better at using the wire near the end. I learned how to keep balance throughout my piece, and how to make sure that pieces do not weigh down another area and such. I learned what materials work best, and how to use them to the best of their ability. I think that if I made this piece a second time I would be much more successful, and the design would be much more aesthetically pleasing, because at this point, I am not so sure. I think that this piece would be really fun to create with wood as a material, I think it would evoke more of what I am trying to say. Wire does with it’s sort of skeletal frame and limp feel, but wood has a type of symbolic craftsmanship to it that would be nice to manipulate.

          A lot of my illustration work mimmicks the face paint I will be doing with my piece too. It is fun to create characters on a paper but to become one of my photos is really fun, and playing with that concept is nice because I think there is a lot of me in this exaggerated character. It will probably feel good to be a par of that side of me that like most humans I want to push to the side.

   I really love my idea behind the two pieces and am very passionate about it. I have never used sculpture or performance to express myself so this has definitely been a good experience artistically too. Using the gear as a symbol for the human body is something that I would like to elaborate on next semester in my sculpture class I will be in. I think that using performance as a medium will be a good experience, because I am really enjoying video, and I have really started to love watching performance pieces, and I would like to try to dive into that.