This second marble machine took me about 50 hours, I think about 12 hours for just making my body form out of the bailing wire, and the majority of the leftover time was creating the marble tracks.
WHY:
The reason for this piece is so that I can express the chaos that I feel in my life right now. I don’t know where my education is heading, what I want to do with my life, why I stopped climbing, and why I’m continually broke recently. I want to express that craziness and loneliness that I feel.
The body form itself I’m making out of blackish wire, I didn’t want a shiny silver wire, it wouldn’t be able to portray the more broken down and defeated look. The wire work should look sporadic and unorganized to mirror how I feel my life is right now. I want the wire to have no certain path and look almost blurry in a way, very similarly to some of Antony Gormely’s sculptures. There for the identity of the wire person will be unknown which is definitely a huge thing I’m struggling with as well.
Then there will be the marble machine tracks which will be made of copper and will be greatly contrasting the black messy, human form. I want the tracks to represent several things; my energy, train of thought, and the pathways in which I could choose my life to go. I want the tracks to look as clean cut and shiny as possible. Every once in a while when I think about where my life could go and why I feel so crazy thinking about it, I realize how silly it is and how I’m over dramatizing and making myself feel crazy as things change around me. Another reason I want the tracks to look perfect and controlled is to show that since I feel like I can’t control my life right now and I’m just taking the punches as I go, this marble machine is the only thing I can control and can create in a neat and orderly fashion. It will show the several clear pathways that I have in my life and the marbles will end shooting off in several different directions, which are the directions I could take myself.
The marbles are going to be clear and perfect with a little swirl of color on the inside to represent the little sparks of hope in all of my thoughts. They will all start on the same spot on the machine entering the mouth from the hand and as they travel thought my body they will take different pathways and end in several different locations, this equaling the end scenarios of my choice. They viewers could probably view this piece as a Machine I use to make decisions, if I were to label each of the pathways and then whichever pathway is chosen by more marbles is the one I will choose. Another reason that I chose marbles for this piece instead of steal ball bearings is because these marble are special to me and bring me back to childhood. When I was younger I would collect marbles, I had four thousand some at one point (and yes I did count them). It’s another way to make this piece more personal to me, to use marbles that I’ve had for most of my life.
An important part of the piece is that I’m going to have the wire me sitting in a sort of slouched over, defeated position with my head rested on my hand thinking, still trying to figure things out. Having the wire form on the stool is pedestal like. It portrays how isolated I feel along with the feeling that I have no support in choosing what to do with myself. I have to make the choice, I can be the only one to make the end decision and lead my life where I want it to go.
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