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Create an ABSTRACT sculpture utilizing additive and subtractive sculpting techniques; a sculpture with concave and convex curves, which achieves rhythm, movement and balance not only through its (positive) shape, the space that the FORM occupies, but through the shape of the spaces that it does not occupy, the empty/negative spaces within; a sculpture which incorporates at least one, and possibly multiple, holes which penetrate from one side of the sculpture to another, creating value through shadow, and opening space while increasing the viewing angles and complexity of the form.     

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ABSTRACT: art with little or no recognizable or realistic forms from the physical world; focus on formal elements (colors, lines, or shapes); nonrepresentational: not aiming to depict (show) an object but composed with the focus on internal structure and form.  (Artists often "abstract" objects by changing, simplifying, or exaggerating what they see).

ADDITIVE SCULPTURE: Sculptural form produced by combining or building up material from a core or armature. Modeling in clay and welding steel are additive processes.

ARMATURE: framework for model: a framework that supports a sculpture while it is being modeled.

BALANCE: (Principle of Design); a sense of equilibrium achieved through implied weight; an equal arrangements of specific ELEMENTS within a composition deliberately organized by the artist.;  ELEMENTS could include COLOR, LINE, SHAPE, TEXTURE etc..

CONCAVE: curved inward like the inner surface of a bowl or sphere.

CONVEX: having a surface that curves outward rather than inward (i.e. eye).

EMPHASIS: ((Principle of Design); the dominant, or the most noticeable quality of a work of art; artists deliberately manipulate the elements of art to create such emphasis.

HARMONY: (Principle of Design); the quality of relating the visual ELEMENTS of a composition; achieved by the repetition of characteristics that are the same of similar; these cohesive factors create pleasing interactions.  

NEGATIVE SPACE/AREAS: unoccupied or empty space; background space; left after the positive elements have been created; when these areas have boundaries, they also function as design shapes in the total structure.

MOVEMENT (Visual Movement): (Principle of Design); an illusion created by the artist to convey action in a piece of stationery art.; achieved by repetition, adding lines, or careful placement of objects.

POSITIVE SPACE: area(s) of a work of art that are filled with meaningful intentions; often, it is the positive space that contains the image the viewer is expected to recognize; the state in an artwork in which the art ELEMENTS (SHAPE, LINE, etc) or their combination, produce the subject--nonrepresentational or recognizable objects.

RHYTHM: (Principle of Design); visual movement created by repeating specific Elements of Art.

SUBTRACTIVE SCULPTURE: Sculpture made by removing material from a larger block or form.

TEXTURE: (Element of Art)

UNITY: (Principle of Design); quality of wholeness; the result of bringing the Elements of Art into the appropriate ratio between HARMONY and VARIETY to achieve a sense of oneness.