This project was about a particular emotion. It was supposed to capture that emotion in an abstract way. We could use any materials we wanted.

The emotion I chose was “longing.”

I will attach an image of the original sketch and notes. When I thought of longing, I thought of how at the center of the emotion is this reaching out toward whatever it is that one is longing for. That is why in the center there is a spiraling arm reaching up. The circle of overlapping, bridge-like arms was meant to represent the excitement that comes from thinking about what one might long for. The reason that the different parts are all swirling in some way is a little harder to explain. I just felt like the emotion I chose was not a very static one—it has movement.

Orange was the natural color of the clay. I chose to highlight the edges of the sculpture in the complementary color to show the edges better, since it would only be seen in photographs. I wanted the curves to come through clearly.