Cloud of conciousness

My second assignment for the sculpture class was to make a sculpture in clay for my mid-terms. We didn't have a particular topic about it, so it was very open project. I was thinking of a multitude of small object, arranged in some special way. I wanted them to be small, colorful and vivid. 

Mostly of my works are very personally orientated, so i wanted to create something that is meaningful for me, and also a part of my everyday life. So i decided to create a lot of small object from everyday, ordinary life, and also some abstract, formless objects that can be a part of conciousness and thinking process. The way i wanted to arrange them was to make some sort of a "cloud" that is around my head, and that can be also around somebody other's head, so that you are basically stepping into my micro-universe. I decided to make a construction of wood and wire, to hang it on a doorway, as a passage between two different places. I used a stronger wire and a wooden "cross" to make a construction of a "cloud" and i used tiny wire for make my small object hang in a very movable way. I wanted them to "play" around your head, in a same way that they are playing in my head.

So i first started making small objects in clay. I used for a half of the objects fired clay, and for other half i used some sort of clay which is drying by itself and it doesn't need to be fired.

Those who were fired are definitely more solid. I also decided to make a small blank flat object and write different messages on them, such as thoughts, song lyrics, movie and books quotes, more-less everything that had some influence on me during my stay here.

Some of them i fired after they dried, and some of them needed to stay longer and dry naturally. So i had a sort of small exibition at my studio :) They looked very cute all together.

After drying they were completely ready for colouring. At first i wanted to glaze them, but that was to complicated because of the fact that they are very small and that after glazing i need to fire them again, so i decided to use acril colours, which are easy to work with, they are drying fast and i have a multitude of different colours.

So, colouring!

Now they are colorful gropu of different things!

After colour-work, i made a wire construction and i put it all together. i love the way how it's moving! it's lovely <3

When i finished it, i wanted to try to put it somewhere else that the doorway. So i found a wonderful huge window at one of my classrooms, i hanged my sculpture in the window and i was watching what was going on. IT'S ALIVE! I was very happy. My sculpture was hanging in the window, trough you could see beautiful Siena, to feel a summer breeze, to see how the sculpture i spinning on the wind, how the wire is having a reflection from the sun and it's shining, the sounds which is creating. It was a wonderful experience. 

And finally, self-portrait <3