Saturday, May 8, 2010
@ 11:14 PM
Short Descriptions for Our Sculpture
We build an angel sculpture to encapsulate our theme ‘Love for Sister’. At the end of the story, Caddy helped Saffy to put her angel back as one piece and this shows the great bond between the two sisters. The angel therefore would be the main/first idea we had in mind. We made use of paper-mâché, which is a construction material that consists of pieces of
paper, stuck together using a wet paste, to build our sculpture. This method allows the resulting material to be cut, and painted, and waterproofed by painting with a suitable water repelling paint once it turns dry. Therefore, enable us to complete our sculpture within a week.
She feels that the angel is important to Saffron, therefore she bothered to overcome her fear and drive all the way to the dilapidated house where their grandfather used to live in to check whether the angel is there. Also, she spent a lot of effort as she went all the way there despite the fact that she did not know truly if the angel was present. After retrieving it, she brought it all the way back to fix it spending weeks to put the sculpture back together for Saffron hoping that the angel would help Saffron. Therefore, Caddy thinks that the angel is important, otherwise she would not bother wasting so much time and effort or risking her 'life' to drive there to get the angel back to the banana house.
The angel is made by paper-mâché where newspaper is being used. This means that we are using recycled materials to do it. The glue is made up of flour and water, and does not pollute the environment. Caddy, an aspiring zoologist would not want the environment to be polluted. Thus, we used this method to build our sculpture. We then spray-painted our sculpture gold like mentioned in the book, and the paint is CFC free. Not only that, we added in the straw hearts in a ‘basket’ that represented Caddy’s love for her sister. The usage of multi colours straw meant Caddy’s love for Saffy in every way, which she did.
We feel that this sculpture is appropriate in describing Caddy. Firstly, in the story, Caddy helped to fix her adopted sister, Saffy’s angel back. Also, to make it represent Caddy, we sprayed the angel gold in colour as in the story, Caddy helped Saffy’s to spray it into gold colour after fixing it for her. Not only that, Caddy showed love for her sister by fixing the angel for her, this in turn encapsulated our theme ‘Love for Sister’. Even though they are not real sisters, their relationship is still very close.
Mrs Boy, we did not put up any pictures for the sculptures because we left in school accidentally. We will hand it in to you during our break on Monday(maths paper). We are very sorry for any inconveniences caused.