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Yet another Western art project.

This was for an assignment called "invisble menagerie", the goal was to create either a hybrid or normal animal and place it with a found object to represent a current concern or problem in the modern world. It also had to be made of packing tape, self-supporting, and hollow. ridiculous.

So... because i wanted to make a cool clear beast (and also because I'm majoring in Media), I tried to represent the fear of society as is generated by the media. I had a news radio station playing on the stereo, and the beast was crawling over the speaker.

In order to make such a sculpture (if one was insane enough to want to), you basically have to make 2 sculptures. The first one is either paper mache or things like stuffed toys and objects that create your form. THEN you must wrap the form entirely in saran wrap (I did mine in pieces--individual legs, head, arms (they're actually a guy on my floor's arms!), and tail, then put them together afterwards). After its covered in saran wrap, tape LAYERS upon LAYERS of packing tape until the outside is a hard shell of tape. Then cut the outside off, rip out your form, and patch up your clear tape-shell. Mine took about 8 rolls, but i knew people's who took around 25....

My first marked art proj in university! A lot of upper year students were complimenting me on it (which was a pretty big ego boost considering im not even majoring in art, as they are), and i got 86%!!!

Description
Yet another Western art project.

This was for an assignment called "invisble menagerie", the goal was to create either a hybrid or normal animal and place it with a found object to represent a current concern or problem in the modern world. It also had to be made of packing tape, self-supporting, and hollow. ridiculous.

So... because i wanted to make a cool clear beast (and also because I'm majoring in Media), I tried to represent the fear of society as is generated by the media. I had a news radio station playing on the stereo, and the beast was crawling over the speaker.

In order to make such a sculpture (if one was insane enough to want to), you basically have to make 2 sculptures. The first one is either paper mache or things like stuffed toys and objects that create your form. THEN you must wrap the form entirely in saran wrap (I did mine in pieces--individual legs, head, arms (they're actually a guy on my floor's arms!), and tail, then put them together afterwards). After its covered in saran wrap, tape LAYERS upon LAYERS of packing tape until the outside is a hard shell of tape. Then cut the outside off, rip out your form, and patch up your clear tape-shell. Mine took about 8 rolls, but i knew people's who took around 25....

My first marked art proj in university! A lot of upper year students were complimenting me on it (which was a pretty big ego boost considering im not even majoring in art, as they are), and i got 86%!!!