Finshed Sculpture: Foundation Stone

Some of the pieces ready for final assembly

I assembled this pieces by glueing and screwing 4 pieces at a time.

Using the steel and wood dowels to align everything. (Back view)

After it was constructed I used graphite to unify the outer dark surface and tung oil finish in the internal lighter parts. (front view)

Finished piece in Boundary Hall Gallery (back view) 

I am extremely happy in how this piece turned out. The name of the piece is Foundation Stone. I look forward to expanding on this series in the future.  

Mitchell Biggio's 450 Sculpture Part 2

About 40 Pieces Front view

Around 40 Pieces Top view

 Around 70 Pieces Back View

 

Around 70 Pieces Side view of inside

Here is where I am at so far with my serial sliced sculpture. This about 70 pieces. I plan to get up to around 200. At this point the pieces are only held in place by the wood dowels. In the final there will be a steel rods that goes through the major parts and the rest will be glued and screwed. I am using the computer model as a reference but also keeping my options open during the building. I don't like to be constricted to one option.

Mitchell Biggio's 450 Sculpture Part 1

For this class I wanted to produce a sculpture in the same series that I started last quarter. The series is all about internal decay and complexity. The idea that there is no knowing what is going on within something.

 This is the work that I created last Quarter 

For the new sculpture I am going to have an even simple outer form with a similar kind of internal structure that the sculpture above has. I will use the same kind of work flow for the new one as the last one. This involves laser cutting many pieces of a simple shape of wood with holes in them so that I can put rods in it so that everything all lines up. I will then manually use a band saw and cut the internal areas. 

The shape of the new sculpture is going to be a simple box shape around 4 feet tall. 

This is a picture of some of the pieces of the this quarter's sculpture.