It's About Time...

Assignment:
Carve two forms from life (a small, plastic animal) using soap as your medium. Observe and depict proportions.  Apply concepts of time to one of your carvings so that the form no longer represents your chosen animal.  Use the same animal for both forms.

Materials:

-One good quality bar of soap - two bars are best.  Visit Marshalls or Ross in town to purchase large, good quality soap.  Do not use drugstore soap (Dove, Irish Spring).
-Kemper ribbon carving tool set
-Banning wheel
-Small plastic animal or figure (if needed, you can borrow from me)
-Toothpicks can sometimes be useful for detail work. 
-Butter knife can also be useful.
-Ivory soap is VERY soft. I do not suggest using Ivory soap for this assignment. On the other hand, Ivory Soap floats...so, maybe it is worth it for you to use if your idea involves floating.  ---Glycerin soap is transparent, so it can be used for this quality.  

Process Work: 

 Final Carving:

 Destruction Process Work:

 Cut off the paws

 Inserted bits of paper clip into the feet, back, neck and head

 Wet the soap and rolled in soap shavings

 Carved a hole in its belly

 Filled belly with red Mountain Dew and placed in freezer

 Baked in oven on 400 for 15 minutes

(The overly sensitive fire alarm went off...thus I took it out of the oven)

 Poured wax over still warm carving

 Back into the freezer to cool off...

 More wax...hot wax over very cold carving made an interesting effect...

 This is what the bottom looks like when I peeled it from the foil...

 Cut in half and reassembled...

 And that's all folks!

Lick and Lather video response

Antoni uses different media and a vast array of unusual techniques to create art. It was strange to watch as she used her hair and a bucket of paint to create a painting on the floor. As was seeing her make a mold out of lard in a tub. But what was amazing was her relationship with her art. She sought to embrace concepts that were abstract and embraced them through out of ordinary means. She epitomized the limitlessness of artistic capacity. It begs the question: What is art? Is it the end result or the process? Both hold meaning.