Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Jill Jacobs






Soapstone Totem
2014
Soapstone, Steel
6" x  6" x 66"


Stoapstone Totem was the most experimental piece I created this semester. I have grown comfortable and confident using steel and wire and wanted to play with subtractive sculpture. While the soapstone portion of this sculpture was inspired by Meso-American totems and carvings, the steel originated as a method to see the carving at eye level, but developed into an attempt of using two disparate mediums, a concept I had yet to play with. I worked within the juxtaposition of the most malleable stone and the solidity and rigidity of steel and found them to hold little relation outside this contrast. 

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