Texture Sculpture

      I spent a lot of time moving around the parts in my sculpture, in order to find an arrangement that conveyed movement, but at the same time was organized and clean. I realized after a lot of moving things around how hard it really is to actually find a way of placing objects to convey a certain message. I think that my final sculpture shows a lot of improvement in my exploration of texture, because in my other texture collages the collage appears to be focusing on the shapes and objects, rather than the textures themselves. In my final project, I think that I did a pretty good job of eliminating a viewer's focus on the actual objects, and instead drawing the focus to the textures of the collage. I think that my final work is pretty much free of technical flaws; I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the best way to secure the materials to the wood without drawing unwanted attention to certain things (nails, wood glue, etc). I tried to be as involved as possible in reflections and evaluations of my work, and I took into account any criticisms that I received. I really like the end product of this project: my original goal was to convey some kind of movement or pattern in the collage, and I think that I achieved this on some level by putting rocks at both the top and bottom of the piece, which communicates some level of pattern and repetition.