Project 3 Reflection 3

The use of fishing line and wax as connection devices for my sculpture turned out to be a really fortuitous addition to my project. At first I tried to use the wax to keep my project from collapsing, but it just wouldn't work with the physics of the piece. It did, however, work really as a simple but powerful addition to the image. The melting and dripping wax adds a sort of sense of heat to the image, reinforcing the image of ash at the bottom of the piece.

The fishing line adds new metaphor and reinforces the metaphors already present in the piece. The new metaphor introduced by the fishing line is the metaphor of the invisible puppet strings that bind and move us all. Its cool that these strings are actually invisible from more than a few feet away. It also reinforces the metaphor of connectedness present throughout the various aspects of the piece, even if you can't see where the connections lead.