Under the instruction of Professor Todd Lambrix, several RVCC arts students have created sculptures based on the shapes of their head. This was an assignment given earlier this month at the RVCC Arts Building that involves working with wire.
“What we’ve done is we’ve distilled form down into one of its basic forms, line. Line’s fundamental to all design, whether it is two-dimensional or three-dimensional design. In 3-D, we’re drawing with a line through space to create a form,” said Lambrix.
This is just one of many unique projects done by students in RVCC’s visual arts program, which also works with other mediums such as ceramics, painting, graphic design and photography.
“When it came to designing the sculpture it was really just getting the side profile of my head, making it was the part that for me took more thought as I bent wire in different ways to make facial features, the one wire forms the side profile as well as the chin and lips, the end goal was to make the wire a perspective piece if you look from the front I have distinct cheeks if you look from the side the same wire is now my jawline,” said student Brendan Leary.
Wire sculptures were invented by U.S. sculptor Alexander Calder, who lived from 1898-1976.
