Of Hangers and the Shirts that Wear Them

I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't hopping back onto this blog because of my current Art class requiring some kind of online diary. However, that doesn't mean I can't make the most of it.


So my first project for my Sculpture class was to take a shirt and transform it into something sculpturally interesting. We started with a group project, and my partner and I came up with this little thing.

By little, I mean it's actually pretty large. About 3 feet tall, transformed by  wood plank and some rubber bands. We did this in under 20 minutes in fact, and I think it was quite successful.




When asked to come up with something else in my own time using more sewing skills, I struggled to come up with an idea I loved. I'm not super familiar with 3D art, and sometimes it takes me a while to wrap my head around it.

Once I bit the bullet and actually got to making, I found some coat hangers( I bought them in excess in preparation for my move into my new apartment). I was curious how I could  cut them up to make a neat structure that the shirt could then wrap around.

The coat hangers themselves ended up pretty compelling, but I could not find a way to cut up and wrap the shirt around it in a way I was happy with, be it due to my lack of skills or time (probably a little of both!). I'd like to revisit the project again at some point, as I feel my end result did not bring out the potential of what it could be.