Waterway Marble Drop

For this project me and Bailey created the theme of water park through this marble drop. This idea came through the funnel like in the picture on the left and how you would be funneled through it into other tubes. Having all the tubes leading into many different areas and tubes made it seem almost like an obstacle course inside the piece. One of the hardest things in this project was making sure everything would perfectly end up in the correct areas. It was also hard to have the marble to staying high so that it would be able to go around the piece. We used a pulley system to move the marble higher. First you insert the marble into any of the 4 tubes made out of PVC pipe. It would then fall into the funnel and go into the wire coil and onto the track. Then it would fall into the bucket and be pulled up by the wire until it hit the other wall. A pull of the string and the bucket would tip over into the black box, make its way onto another piece of PVC and then fall into the hole. If I could have changed one thing about this piece would have been to get a larger box so that we could have fit more things into it. I am very proud of the funnel idea and the pulley system.

Imaginary Wire

For the repetition project I went in the direction of repeating wire boxes and putting them together to form a 3-D pyramid, a W, pretty anything you can imagine it can be. First I created multiple 3X3 inch boxes and tied them together using then wire. I formed them and moved the direction of it until I liked the view. I thinked the way I formed it to where the view can be changed to where it can look like anything your mind desires. If I could change one thing I would change the perfection of how straight and sturdy the wire would be.

CATCH THE DISK!

For this project I leaned more to the pressure side of texture/pressure. To make this sculpture, I first drawled out how I wanted the body to be formed. I used wire to create a 2-D, flat version of the body. I also created the disk that he catching in is his left hand. Next I wrapped him in newspaper and tapped it up all around the body. I covered it in a thick layer of tape and painted it. I think a great thing I did for this work is the picture I took because he is a man diving to catch a frisbee and he is in the air diving. I think that shows a good representation of his action. If I did one more thing, I probably would have made his body more proportional.