"Battery Bug", David Plotnick, Mixed Media, 2010
The objective of this Surface Research project was to create seven pieces of artwork. Each piece you make must be destroy in some mean and the next piece is transformed in some way from the previous piece. Through searching half a dozen half baked ideas and many more clamoring for my conceptual attention, I turned towards the idea of making found art sculptures of animals increasing in size being consumed in a growing food chain. To indicate their consumption and destruction each sculpture was then disassembled and parts assimilated and rearranged onto larger creatures, whether for aesthetic or structural purposes in weight. I first start out with an infinitesimal insect made with cardboard trimming, twisty ties, fishing line, and a battery. It was a very quick process no more than ten minutes to make with the help of hot glue. The great start for an idea that was sure to blossom into something extraordinary.
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