Madison's+Jar+Project

|| My finished product:
 * ART.VA.II.HS.3 || **// I can use my art skills to create unique and innovative works of art and design unique products. //**



When Mrs. Ruggles told us that the theme was "Winds of Change" I thought of wind chimes. Then I pondered how I was going to interpret change in my piece. I imagined a plant growing and it's different stages. Starting with a sprout, then blooming flowers, then a full grown flower. I decided to combine the two ideas and came up with this (you cannot see it in the photo but I painted on the plant stages). I encountered numerous problematic situations. Firstly, whilst painting the vases the wind blew a bit too hard and two of my three cleaned out vases fell and broke. I got new ones, and even though the candle wax was still in them, I painted them along with my only clean vase. I had not realized at the moment that when I put together the actual wind chime the vases were different weights. I fixed this by getting rocks from my driveway and dropping the pebbles into the empty vase. Another problem was the vases clanking together when the wind blew. Their sound wasn't as whimsical as I would have liked. So I took a piece of wood (also not visible in the photo) and hung it between the vases. The sound still wasn't quite right but it was better and I decided just to go with it. Then, just my luck, another problem emerged. The piece of wood did not want to move in the breeze. The aluminum butterfly you see toward the bottom of the picture is connected to the bottom of the wood and helps catch the wind. It took forever to cut that out because my grandfather (who was supplying the tools) did not own any aviation shears which would have better been suited to cut out the butterfly rather then the scissors I used. After all of that you finally get the results. I am pleased with my piece but not ecstatic about it. The outcome is kind of messy and I wish that I'd been able to fix that. Some parts of it are very well done though. For example the top part. Believe it or not it used to be a aluminum coffee can. The top and bottom circular parts were cut out very well (using a can opener) and the sides split into three equal pieces. So all in all it could've turned out better.