malia sinkler, metaphor

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." 

-Alexander Hamilton

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Metaphor project

For this project I choose the quote "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything"  from Alexander Hamilton. The idea as to who I wanted the quote to come from may or may not have spurred from my obsession with the Hamilton musical. Aside from that, I'm not completely sure how I feel about the outcome of this work. I'm not ecstatic about it but I'm not necessarily disappointed either. I haven't had a chance to paint it yet but I'm hoping once I do it'll change my mind a bit. I had originally planned to use clay, make a large empty well, and show emotion on a face of a person standing over the well. I accomplished 1.5 of those things. I definitely used clay and I definitely have a well, but it's not arguably big. As far as the person goes, I realized that clay isn't as strong as I would have liked it to be. I had to make the person very tiny and there was no possible way that I would have been able to put anything on it. The second main goal that I had was to paint detail onto clay, but I haven't been able to paint it yet. I excited to be able to though, becuase I want to make the stones or bricks that the well is made of to look realistic. I don't feel like I accomplished my goals as well as I wanted (can that "well" be counted as a pun??? becuase y'know, I made a well) but I can't succeed on every project. Another thing that I wasn't so happy about, is that when I picked it up to take pictures the little guy and 'stick' over the well completely broke off. But that's probably my fault for making it too fragile. A last thing that I wanted to focus on was expressing emotion through something else besides paper. I feel like I've had that goal for many projects this year, but it's different for this one becuase it's not just a 2D model anymore, it's 3D. I don't know how much emotion it shows just being plain grey right now but in my head it has a lot. In my mind the well is alone and distant from everything, yet has many thing coming at it. The water inside represents everything that you would fall for like opinions becuase you're naive or don't care to form your own. The object that the person is standing on represents standing for or in in this case, 'on' nothing. I hope that my message that I wanted to show came through with this project.