Balsa Wood Small Sculptures

Progress and Final Product of the Small Balsa Wood Sculptures project

Sculpture #1:Pattern

This shape formed one half of an element of the
sculpture, which would be reproduced
in four successively smaller elements

laying on one side of the largest and second
largest elements, the sculpture includes four
elements inverted and assembled in a recursive
pattern

Finished product, composed of wood, pins, and wood glue.

Another angle, somewhat closer.
Displays two glue-coated faces

Seen from a more aerial angle

Sculpture #2: Texture

One of two in-progress pictures;
displays the wooden elements which
helps hold the paper elements together

The other in-progress picture;
shows the sculpure in its undecorated stage

Final Product;
displays the paper-and-woodchips face

Displays the sawdust-and=woodstrips face

Partially-aerial view

Sculpture #3: Shape

This is one photo of the final product, showing the more solid side
In my haste, I neglected to record my progress

A view of the interior

Another angle

Artist's Statement: Through these three small sculptures, three different elements or principles of design would be demonstrated; respectively, those elements and principles were pattern, through recursion of a three-dimensional object, texture, through the application of small elements, and shape, through the assembly of roughly equilateral triangles.