Reflecting on Found Object Sculptures

After the process of hammering at all the objects I chose to work with of creating my "Found Object Sculpture", I looked at all the figures to see which stood out at me the most. I noticed that I had a red candle that was in the shape of a cylinder, which could be a head of a person. Also, after ripping up my flashlight inside was a spring which could work for a neck, eye, or hat, but I chose it for the neck. Then as I was building all my pieces together I noticed I had a women and the only thing I needed was hair, which my classmate found inside a tape recorder that looked similar to black curly hair. However, before making a women out of my objects I had a tough time of thinking of something that I could make from putting together "junk". I first started off with an alien, since my figure had two wires on top of its head, and big eyes that were alien-like. Then someone gave me the idea of a rain-deer, but that only lasted ten minutes since I didn't have all the materials that would work to make it look like a rain-deer. Then I finally decided to go down the easy path and not stress myself out, and make a women with different materials. Meanwhile, after looking at all my classmates sculptures, I realized that I could have been much more creative and spent more time thinking of what to make. If you look closely, the body of the women is a barbie dolls body, and instead I could have took time to "play" with different objects and see if I could put them together to make something that would look like a body. If I could do this project again, I first would bring in objects that could make my sculpture grab someone's attention more easier. I would of also created something completely different that would have made someone stare at it for a couple seconds and then realize what the sculpture really is.