For this project we had to chose an artist that has a piece in the North Carolina museum of art, the museum was holding a contest called teen inspired. We had chose a piece that spoke to us, or something that inspired a new art work, for this project I chose Beth Lipman. She made the sculpture called The Bride, it is made out of glass, it looks like a cake but each layer the glass gets more and more damaged. It represents a person and the stages of how they are collected at the top and then they break as it gets lower down.
This piece inspired me in many ways, first the fact it was made out of glass and I found that material really cool, second the meaning behind it just really got my mind thinking. At first my idea was just something I said to make it look as if I was paying attention in class, then I build onto it and ended up liking it. My idea was to take a glass bottle and broken pieces of glass and put it into the bottle, but on the broken pieces are words that tear us up on the inside. On the outside we are smooth and clean but on the inside we have our own war that we are fighting. I had many challenges with this project, first I had to find a big enough bottle and let me tell you it's not easy. Then breaking glass, it sounds fun and looks easy on t.v. but let me tell you it's not easy. You have to be careful not to breath it in or you could die, then you have to be careful you don't cut yourself, also you have to go through the pieces to make sure they fit through the opening of the bottle. Once that was all over I finally go to the fun part, writing on the glass, I asked some people around me what hurt them on the inside. It was a very fun experience I will admit that, but then the one part that stressed me to max. I had an idea to put the words " I'm Fine..." on the front of the glass bottle. Marker made it not look complete, I couldn't find the right colored pain and nothing seemed to work, after discussing this with my people I ended up titling it I'm Fine... it speaks for itself. The pictures below was taken when I used marker on the bottles, but at the moment that has been wiped off. Now I sealed the bottle off with hot glue, I made a base on wax paper, once it dried I placed it on top and then used hot glue to fill it in. I enjoyed this project very well, there is nothing that I would do different or change for this.