GeGe Song_Tuttle "Space" project

GeGe Song_pedestal

GeGe Song_Casting

Andrew Domeier's pedestal and final project

For my pedestal project I decided that I wanted to work with metal. After discussing possible options with Alexa, I decided to model my composition after Piet Mondrion's composition with red, yellow, and blue. this was achieved by making the outer frame and bisecting it with other bars, making more squares and rectangles, all either being 1/2 or 1/3 of the square or rectangle that it is bisecting.

 For the final revision I decided to continue with what I was working on and wire brushed the entire sculpture giving it a raw steel finish. I then set up the sculpture on two wide pedestals and projected its shadow on a nearby wall. To me this project is still not in its final state and I will continue with it until I feel it is completed.

Laura B's Final Paddle

Duct tape and all!  Only one crack in the final re-cast of my canoe paddle. 

Laura B's LLM Response

After spending multiple mornings trying to get myself out of a cozy bed using personal pep talks to arise and greet the cold, dark day, I wondered about what got people out of their bed to start the day.  What follows are a selection of the responses I received.  Seems as though, there are many ways to motivate in the morning.

Phil Geving's Pedestal

My pedestal is built to recognize the museum's power in contemporary art, in some ways how the institution of the museum has become more important to some people than the art itself.  To represent this, I fashioned this conical stand to display miniscule pieces of art.  At four feet tall, its display area is about one-half inch wide, and the viewer can use the affixed magnifier to aid in their appreciation of what art the pedestal can display.

















After considering the relation of art to the museum, I thought about how this representation of the museum could behave and interact with other objects and locations, sometimes to humorous effect.

Luke Salisbury - Pedestal of Rejection

This pedestal was built to reject. 

Most pedestals are constructed to play second fiddle to the works mounted on them, while this piece is made to stand alone. It is, in fact, designed to dominate anything that would dare to place itself on top of it. 

The user of the pedestal is asked to bring a sacrificial object of a fragile nature unto the Pedestal of Rejection. The object is then placed upon the flat surface for a brief moment of false glory before it is then flung onto the cold, unforgiving floor. This pedestal is a useful tool for releasing pent-up aggression one might have towards a particular knick-knack or art object in a safe and controlled way before the feelings are released in an unwanted irrational lashing out.

Jaydn Alexander- Pedestal Project

Beloved Vitrine

In my pedestal project I wanted to create a conversation regarding conventional types of display in museum setting as well as the types of pristine objects displayed.

The loosely fabricated elements of the piece, most evident in the stand, signify to the viewer all aspects of the display were made by hand. This constrasts the conventional quality found in museum displays as they are created in a way as to not distract the viewer from the quality of the piece, as well as to provide a stability in preserving this quality. This is also questioned in the stand as it is unstable and wobbles back and forth at the slightest touch, this is indicative of the brick at the base.



Another conversation this piece instigates is one of the sense of valuable works commonly found in museums. The questions this piece aims to provoke are questions regarding the value behind a work of art. What gives a piece the need to be protected or displayed? What if this value was mere personal attachment? What if this value seems unsettling to one person, but sentimental to another?

Ayla Hohle -- Pedestal

For this project I wanted to show a modern twist on pedestal and vitrine display. Fantisy is a larger trend now days and is all around us. This industrial meets fanstisy has a dragon wrapped up holding a pedestal/vatrine. From one direction it looks like a white pedestal. From another a vatrine displays a farie landscape. Futher modifications have been made and will be posted.

Lindsey Bauer-Pedestal

For the first part of this project, I wanted to make a pedestal that hung from the ceiling and have the platform just above the ground....Well, that didn't work out that great, because of some minor difficulties, but it looked good in the end. A little unfinished though, I would say. I wanted the sculpture to have the feeling of invisibility. So I tried my best to use 'clearer' materials to put everything together. (broken glass, hot glue, plexy, fishing line). Yet there was a somewhat look of 'invisibility'-not really, the project wasn't exactly how I had imagined it to look. But with the help of critique from my classmates, I learned how I could improve my pedestal sculpture. I then took the bottom plexy off of the bottom and continued to have it look open/ongoing, by not constricting it to a limit. I also added more clear glass, along with brown beer bottles to give it more color and I used black wire to hold up the beer bottle glass and clear glass pieces. I think that the black wire really gave it like a fun contour look in a way. A mirror and lamp on the ground under the pedestal was added to give it a more 'reflection' and shadow look, when the lights are turned off. When looking in the mirror-it seems to look like the pedestal is way longer and never ending. The light source also helps reflect off of the glass pieces. And when looking at the ceiling or the wall-you can see the shadows that the glass gives off. I am happy once again with the end result of this project. 

Getting started.

First part.

With a mirror.

Without a mirror. Final.