Ink to Bamboo Translation

For this assignment, we were supposed to take away the essence of what we felt was our most successful piece and turn it into another bamboo sculpture.

The piece I chose wasn't something from our previous project (I made it during the music experiments after finishing my work), but I liked how it turned out the most because it portrayed what I was feeling at the time. It is extremely chaotic to the point where you can't really distinguish the shapes, and that was my goal.

During the critique for my other pieces, this one was brought up for a second, and the feedback I got was that it was to muddled, so I tried simplifying the main structure.

I was thinking that the lighter lines could be even lighter to add more depth to the piece, so instead of adding more circles with the bamboo, I tried to bring out those lines with shadow. This was the finished piece with two different kinds of light sources (the first has two sources and the second only has one):