Artist Statement: This piece of artwork is a red fish made out of plastic bottles. The fish is painted an orangish red. The paint is over two layers of paper mache. It has a tail of five tops of bottles glued together. In the front it has one bottle top to represent a mouth. Two caps were used, painted white and black, to be the fishes eyes. Lastly it has two red fins also made out of plastic from bottles.
In this project, I used Michelle Reader as inspiration. She made sculptures very similar to mine, though not fish. She made a sculpture of a dog made out of the same materials, which I used as a model.I wanted to focus on the shape and color elements of design in this project. I tried using a solid color like how she did with her dog.
There is not really a function of this sculpture. The purpose is to represent an environmental problem. I was looking to highlight the problem of plastic getting in the oceans and harming saline. This is why the project is made entirely of plastic bottles.
I think the project was successful. I liked the way it came out. It does look like a fish and I made it with all recycled materials which was good. However, the fish is very square and not exactly the shape I would've wanted. Also, I wish I had put another layer of paint, so you could not see the text of the newspaper.
In this project, I used Michelle Reader as inspiration. She made sculptures very similar to mine, though not fish. She made a sculpture of a dog made out of the same materials, which I used as a model.I wanted to focus on the shape and color elements of design in this project. I tried using a solid color like how she did with her dog.
There is not really a function of this sculpture. The purpose is to represent an environmental problem. I was looking to highlight the problem of plastic getting in the oceans and harming saline. This is why the project is made entirely of plastic bottles.
I think the project was successful. I liked the way it came out. It does look like a fish and I made it with all recycled materials which was good. However, the fish is very square and not exactly the shape I would've wanted. Also, I wish I had put another layer of paint, so you could not see the text of the newspaper.