As an icebreaker for the start of a new term, I am making my 3D self-portrait. It can be done as a bust or just a head. For my medium, I chose a candle as it would be interesting to carve and eventually melt it. I chose a red candle and at first, I thought it would be amazing to make my bust entirely 3D, but as I soon realised it was only red from the outside and inside it was white. Moreover, it had a weird dotted texture so you could not see eyes or any features whatsoever. So I came up with another idea to connect 2D art of carving my face on the candle and leaving some of the red wax to make it easier to focus on the face, and as a 3D part I carved the rest of the candle to look like a head and shoulders, so from the back, it looks like a head, but the features are only on the front. However, the eyesockets are deeply carved which gives interesting results.
1. Sketching the face
2. Carving the face and the head
3. Side view
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INTERESTING RESEARCH - CHOCOLATE AND SOAP SELF-PORTRAIT
Janine Antoni Lick and Lather, 1993
Antoni, J, (1993) 'Lick and Lather'
On the left chocolate, on the right soap
Art created to be licked and consumed, by people and time, as the chocolate melts after a while in a hot room. The artist used the type of sweet that would last up to 100 years as it had more wax than fat in it and would stay hard for longer. It was made as a series made by women showing the female body in different intimate perspectives. Janine's goal was to show how women are 'consumed', by some men in their surrounding with the looks, cat-calling. It was also said how it represents the will power of some people as they are not fighting with their desire and just lick or take a bite of something (Antoni, J., for Cembalest 2013).
Resource:
Cembalest, R., (2013) 'Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Self-Destructing Chocolate Head', Art News, available at:
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/chocolate-self-portraits-by-janine-antoni-and-dieter-rot-2190/ [Accessed: 10/04/2021]
Very well realised task from the initial idea to the way you chose to make this piece. The research was good as well, finding an interesting contextual link to the work of Antoni, your commentary on the sculpture in particular. Well done.
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