Line and Structure

I started taking a 3D art class this week.  We are starting out by creating wire art which is a new medium for me. It has come difficult issues to work with. My fingers are already sore from working with the stiff 16 gage stuff. And my hands are also black and greasy every time I pick it up. Its been a good learning experience though, to think 3D. Its very hands on which I like.  I like working with something with actual volume instead of the illusion of volume and mass.

This introduction project uses concepts that I have learned before in other art classes. Vocabulary such as volume, form, and line that I have heard and used before.  Wire is a wonderful medium to focus on all different kinds of lines, horizontal, vertical, diagonal, curvelinear, contour, cross contour, and implied. Lines have an important use in expression visually.  Lines also work together to define form and shape and create structure within the project.

While working on our zoomorphic (animal) wire projects our instructor explained the importance of a central form or structure as a starting point for our projects. For example the skeletal system in mammals is a supporting structure and a necessary place to start because its the bones that give the shape and form and foundation for everything else, the heart the muscle, skin, hair.

Its hard to photograph this because. . . its all lines, but this is a general idea anyway.

He then posed the question to us "How will you use line in your work whatever it is?" Since I really haven't decided what I want to be when I grow up. . . I don't have a focus yet, but I have used line in different mediums and studies.  Lines are everywhere. . . even in my life.

President Thomas S. Monson talked about choices in this past General Conference. "Choose to build up within ourselves a great and powerful faith which will be our most effective defense against the designs of the adversary - a real faith, the kind of faith which will sustain us and will bolster our desire to choose the right.  Without such faith, we go nowhere. With it, we can accomplish our goals."

He's talking about building our structure. Our choices determine our form, what we become, who we are.

"May we ever choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong. As we contemplate the decisions we make in our
lives each day.  if we choose Christ, we will have made the correct choice."

Choose Christ.

By choosing Christ as the foundation for our lives, God will make more of us that we could ever make of ourselves. Something truly amazing and beautiful and unique!