Prayer- Artist Statement

My project has a more serious feel to it; it is about prayer and having a feeling of hope: praying hands with a rosary hung down over the hands. The idea was the first thing that came into my mind.  It was a lot easier thinking of this project than the projects in the past. I have a strong faith and when I came up with the idea it just stuck. The most challenging part was to sculpt the hands. Hands would seem as though they would be pretty easy to make although when you put two together you have to almost mirror them. There were two ways that I was thinking of doing them, with actual mass and with implied mass. The contrast of the actual mass that makes up the cross and the implied mass that makes up the hands looks unique and different.  I resolved the challenges by playing with the wire a lot. I re-sculpted the hands multiple times and then finally started to like what I was making. I like the cross the best about my sculpture. I think that the cross is the topping to the sculpture and makes it special. I like the actual mass of the cross and the way that it’s sculpted.  It is the more heavy part of the sculpture and stands out the most opposed to the hands which is implied mass and has a lighter feeling.  The sense of faith and prayer really comes across when you look at the praying hands with the cross, which is what I was trying to convey. I also like how it is hung on the wall as it is coming out from the wall, which makes you create your own image in your mind. It is different in everyone’s eyes, which is what I like.  I wanted to convey the abstract piece to my sculpture, but for some they might not think about was trying to make or have the emotions come across. It could be a good thing or a bad thing. The hardest part was making the hands be the way I wanted because the wire didn’t exactly move how I wanted it to. The easiest part was getting the idea in my head because it just came to me and I already knew what I wanted to do, which in the past was the most challenging part. If there was something that I could change about my project I would maybe do an animal or make it more of an actual mass sculpture because I liked how my cross turned out with actual mass.