Sculpture I

Dan Lam is an acclaimed artist from Dallas, Texas. She makes mostly blobs out of polyurthane foam. Her works have been showcased in galleries around the world due to their uniqueness. Her works normally go for around one thousand dollars on websites like artsy.com. She has an instagram and a website: https://www.bydanlam.com. These sculptures are soft to the touch, so you could cuddle with one if you wanted to. She has a cool way of displaying the works- she makes it appear like the blobs are oozing off the shelves like the one above. Dan Lam inspires me because her sculptures are completely random but have interesting titles, like "Legs for Days." I had a little keychain that looked like these sculptures when I was little, so these works brought me back to my freshman year when I had the keychain (it was stolen). That was what caught my attention. I feel like this could inspire my own art because this style lets me know that it's okay for your sculptures to not be pe

1. Which stamp do you think will work the best and why? I think my cube will work the best because it has deep indentations of my random object. 2. Which stamp do you think will have difficulties and why? I think the spheres will have difficulties because there still are pieces of clay stuck in the markings. 3. Which style was the most difficult to make and why? The style I had most difficulties with was the the one with the handle because I couldn't really make the base into a nearly perfect circle and it was sort of challenging to attach the handle to the base. 4. Which style was easiest to make and why? The sphere was easiest to make because all you have to do is roll it in a ball.

1. What did you find worked well and what stamp did not? Why do you think that is? The little rubik's cube stamp did really well as it is clearly indented upon the surface of the clay. Surprisingly enough, the sphere stamp did not do well. I think the markings were not carved in deep enough. 2. Do you think that the practice will influence what you make for your own stamps? Yes. I will make sure to carve deep enough and to follow what whoever created the rubik's cube stamp did.