Sunday, March 30, 2008
For this project, I was thinking about making some sort of sculpture out of old license plates from antique stores. I have a love for traveling and I think that rustic pieces like those are a really cool representation of that. I am just having trouble deciding what to make and exactly how to sculpt them together to make an interesting piece. Any suggestions would be cool...I'm still deep in the thought process but wanted to throw my idea out there.
Jen
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Since you're trying to portray a sense of travel, you could make something travel-related, like a car or a plane or a giant passport...though I don't know how--you'd have to bend them and glue them or something, which might be difficult. But, I thought I might as well throw the idea out there.
Maybe you could make a suitcase...or cover an old suitcase from goodwill with the plates...
A suitcase would be cool. Or it would be cool if you got all 50 states and cut each piece to the shape of their state and put them together to make one giant USA. And maybe to make it more 3d, place a car as if it is driving through the country.
I totally agree, the first thing I thought of was a suitcase made out of the license plates. Other than that maybe something wall-hangable would be cool. It would be really awesome if you could...weld them or something? I don't really know how you'd go about it but basically if you could melt them to be bendable at points to make the shape of the suitcase and have it entirely hollow. I think that would be really interesting.
Jen! I like your idea! I'm also really diggin the map idea if you could get plates from all 50 states. That would be a really neat thing to look at!
I'd say say go with the suitcase idea!! I love pieces that function as stuff in addition to being art! Plus getting liscences from every single state might be really difficult. But I guess if you were missing just a few states you could just make your own out of some kind of metal sheet.
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