My artwork is titled Possible Waterfall. It is a three dimensional popsicle stick and cardboard sculpture held together using hot glue. from almost any angle it looks like a mess of pieces, but if you look at it from one specific spot, the pieces line up and make an impossible shape resembling M.C. Escher's Impossible Waterfall. The shape makes it seem as if the water is flowing far away and uphill but it ends up flowing back into itself. in reality, there is no flowing water. In the drawing, gravity doesn't exist, so you can draw the water as if it were flowing, but in reality the water has to suspend itself from the beginning pool area.
I created my artwork by hot glueing popsicle sticks together in a few shapes that line up only when viewed from a specific angle. I then planned to hot glue cardboard to the bottom of the pieces to make them resemble the canals of the original drawing. I also planned to put blue tissue paper into the canals to make them look as it water was flowing. For the self suspending tissue paper, i planned on attaching the paper to blue pipe cleaners. My only inspiration was M.C. Escher's Impossible Waterfall. I have always loved Escher's work and illusions in general, so taking something that was literally supposed to be impossible and making it 3D was interesting to me and seemed like a fun challenge. My goals for this artwork were originally to make the illusion work. I wanted it to only make sense when viewed from the angle it was originally drawn in. That was when I started. Now, my only goal is to finish it. I have no idea if that will happen, but we'll see. So far I think it was going good. I got cut off before I was able to make any real progress but I was on my way there quickly. I feel like the illusion would have worked as I planned and sketched it out mathematically and it worked when i modeled it in 3D online, so I really wish I could've kept working on it. My two-year-old little brother Jayce got my pieces that I was making the sculpture with. I have two images; the pieces when I got them from the school, and the pieces after my brother got them. The picture of broken pieces got half corrupted when I emailed it to myself.
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AuthorHey I'm jaden, I'm a senior this year, and I really like to draw. Like, I REALLY like to draw. Only with pencil though. 90% of the time I only create art with a pencil. Archives
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