Week 12

Building the Sculpture

This week I continued to work on the sculpture. Starting with drilling holes for the periscopes. There are 5 holes in total: 4 for each periscope, and one in the middle to connect them all together to the bottom. This deep hole is for power supply and headphone cables to go through without exposed outside to cause disturbance.

Then I started to put corals onto the polystyrene base. And wrap the sculpture with modroc to smoothen the surface and improve its durability.

After modroc, the sculpture was painted with acrylic paint. The tone changes from side to side indicating the health condition of the “marine ecosystems”, connecting to the digital content inside the periscopes.