bike bike make a bike woohooo.

for our final project we were supposed to create a sculpture somehow incorporating the idea of a bicycle into it, or we could make a bike or something...rees was very open-ended with this assignment and it was nice to have a world of oppurtunity to just go crazy and do whatever my lil heart desired.
unfortunately it took me a while to formulate my ideas into a feasible project, and i did not have the oppurtunity to fully expand my project into what i would have ideally liked to create. c'est la vie, i can not devote all of my being to this one class and this one final project as much as i would have liked to.
i have yet to really encorporate my unique style into my sculptural projects, and its also hard for me not ever taking any kind of class that deals with art in the 3d aspects.
because i didnt feel very comfortable with my capabilities in dealing with this, i decided tp just start taking the bikes we found apart and just dealing with them in a way that i felt comfortable with. initially i started to make a base with wheels and i glued and wired them together. becuase i was a bit overwhlemed with what i was doing, i decided not to weld anything together. however i feel that this decision somewhat crippled my project and did not allow me to really evolve as much as i would have wanted to for this last project.
i decided against using all parts of the bike in my project. i decided to use bamboo against the metallic of the wire i was using and the bike parts. i liked that harsh contrast of materials. it was symbolic of how we destroyed trees to make roads and streets taht we know ride bikes on. all of the bamboo was broken and caged inside the wire. i also like that my design is reminiscentof the old rickshaw kind of thing that people used to get around on, however it immobile. the wheels do not turn, and it is not able to support the weight of a person. i will put more pictures up soon as i can.

http://www.yican.com.au/1935/images/rickshaw.jpg
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http://s68.photobucket.com/albums/i31/vinyl_amnesia/SJs/