2. Ready-Made

For my final project I will build a sculpture that resembles a cheeseburger. The sculpture will explore ideas of substance vs. surface, consumerism, and the “speed” of the ready-made.

I will build the sculpture out of found materials that are mass-produced and resemble/relate to the burger ingredient they represent in either shape, form, color, or function. The buns will be cardboard boxes. The lettuce will be sheets of latex. The tomatoes will be rubber swimming tubes. The burger patties will be car tires. The cheese will be ShamWow towels. The pickles will be bucket covers. The size of the sculpture will determined by the size of the “burger patty” – an average size car tire. The size and quantity of the other ingredients will follow from there.

I will exibit the sculpture in the 2^nd Floor hallway of South Building on a large pedestal.

The idea is that the food we consume is mass-produced using ingredients that are often times synthetic, or at least chemically enhance/mechanically produced for the sake of quick, cheap labor, and profitability.

Time is expressed as the audience moves around the sculpture to view it from all 360 degrees. Time is also expressed through the concept of the ready-made sculpture and is further enhance by the fact that these ingredients were created on an assembly line.

Timeline:

Week 1 – attain all materials

Week 2 – build pedestal

Week 3 – assemble sculpture, dry-fit

Week 4 – finish sculpture, install in hallway