The Little Big Man Series
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The piece pictured here Little Big Man 2 is the latest in a series of multifunction forms that I have been exploring over the last few years and I thought might be a good opportunity for me to discuss a little about my design process. The idea of a multifunction form as I defined it was to come up with a visually interesting sculptural form that could be turned or rotated and take on not only a different look but also change function. My process is one in which I do a fair amount of sketching on paper until I arrive at some ideas that I feel are worthy of further development.From there I go to the computer and begin to work on issues of scale, proportion and color and create 3d models which give me a feel for what the finished piece might look like.But invariable I end up building scale models usually using the actual materials I plan for the full sized piece because it is the only way I can truly get a real feel for how all the elements in piece work together.The process in not necessarily a linear one and many times I go back to paper and pencil before I get an idea to the point I am ready to build and often in the process of building I go back to the drawing board. From the beginning of the design process I started drawing this form in pairs and was intrigued by the way they could work both individually and as pair and made the decision I should build two of them and sell them as a pair.From there the decisions got more difficult, I struggled mightily on not the form so much but how to finish it. My bent in most of my work is to highly personalize my pieces with surface designs,images, color and texture and I explored them all here but somehow I ended up with a much more minimalist approach, a little black paint and a clear lacquer finish.The motivation for this could be I was just exhausted from my own process and wanted to finish the piece or I thought it worked better in a simpler form, in the end like all my work it is a work in process and I will let you be the judge as to its success.If you are interested in the piece please comment and give me your feed back if you are interested in purchasing please visit my etsy site.
