It's About Time...Part 1

Assignment:

Carve two forms from life using soap as your medium. Apply concepts of time to one of your carvings. The first phase of time will be based on elements you add to the form.  The second phase of time will demonstrate subtraction/alteration.  Your goal is to remove the form as far away as possible from its original state.  Each photo will present the form in a different state.  The first four photos will address addition to the form and the next four will demonstrate subtraction/alteration. The second carving will be evaluated for observation (so use your least successful carving for the time based portion of this assignment). Use photographs and/or video to document the stages of your process and the final solution. Post final images/video on your blog.  At least eight (8) images are required.

Materials:

A couple of bars of soap, Kemper ribbon carving tool set, banning wheel, small plastic animal or figure.I also used paint, glue, a sharpie, colored sugar, a sink, a microwave, a bowl of water, and a cheese grater.

For this project I began by tracing a tiger figure onto the soap. I cut off the excess and carved and carved and carved until I got the right shape.

Adding

Then I painted every other space to make the soap figure look a little for tiger like.

 After that I poured glue all over the figure.

And then rolled it around in colored sugar.

Subtracting

The subtractive process began with using a cheese grater to grate off the figure's feet and butt.

Then the figure took a shower in the sink with cold water. This rinsed off a majority of the glue and sugar.

After the shower I placed the figure on a plate in the microwave and let it ride for 15 seconds.

Not much happened other than some foaming and color swirling.

The last thing I did was put the figure in a bowl of hot water for 15 minutes.

The figure came out a but smaller after dissolving a little in the water and was very gooey and kind of gross feeling. Since then it has dried and shrunk.