Assignment II - Amanda Dority

I wanted my piece to be about something that mattered to me, so I decided I wanted to make a piece about climate change or more popularly known as Global Warming. I really love octopus, pretty much everything about them, but mostly their kind of weird creepy appearance. I thought they were kind of perfect for a vase as well! I have been wanting to sculpt an octopus for awhile, so this kind of seems like a perfect occasion for this. There is an octopus in the antarctic that is called Turquet that is linked to proof of at least a partial collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) during a previous interglacial period. So that is why I chose to make an octopus tulip vase.

I was inspired by: 

The Turquet octopus

Deborah Schwartzkopf

For the tentacle like shape of her tulip vase.

Heather Mae Erickson

For some of my other ideas for this project. I really enjoyed how seemingly simple and yet intricately beautiful her pieces were. They reminded my of shells or rocks. Which inspired my shell drawing.

Sanam Emami

Also for the tentacle like appareance.

I was also thinking it might be cool to carve a water inspired art nouveau pattern into the body of my vase. But I'm not sure if I'd have enough time for that.

and.... my terrible sketches!