"I Feel So Alive"

This is a sculpture of a girl, any old teenage girl, who built herself some wings, and is all ready to spread them and fly away out into the world. She's even got her suitcase all ready. I made it after doing an entire Mixed media sculpting class worth of sculptures all about growth. I decided to do a sculpture about personal growth that I'd experienced becomin' a Lefty art chick, learning about crazy SHite I'd never known....seeing how far I could push my envelope. Everyone liked this peice, and I did too....plus it kind of summed up my year, so I decided to use it as my peice for the Foundation Class show. Storage was a wee bit of a problem with this one, since it's life size, and I take the bus an hour and a half to and from school, every day, so I had it stashed in the Foundation work shop for most of the year, collecting dust. When Foundation SHow time came around, I found out that we had to have the shop cleaned of all art materials and deitrus the day before the day we handed in our peices. I went into the shop to collect my sculpture, and someone had stolen the suitcase. THis was only a mild shock....theft is rampant amongst starving artists. Her sneakers, (Not shown in the photo-real sneakers, she's wearing on her little wire feet. My own converse All Stars) were missing too, but I found them all in the corner. Not too many adults wear size 4 boys sneakers. I had nowhere to keep the sculpture until the next day, since it didn't fit in my locker, and the tops of the lockers had to be clear too, so, I stashed it outside behind these bushes.....NOw, my boyfriend Zane also has a ridiculously large sculpture....I mean, this is a HUGE 8 foot tall wooden box, 3 feet square, with peepholes gouged in it. when you look inside the holes you see all these rusty car parts and pictures of decayed bodies and babies and stuff, and there's this globe stuck full of hypodermic needles and shit....anyway, what's he supposed to do with this mammoth box? he stashed it behind the bushes in the back of the school. SO, When weener girl needs a place to put her sculpture, she stuffed it INSIDE her boyfriend's SKinny Puppy Death Metal Goth sculpture. Unfortunatly, it rained that night, and the water leaked into the box, and melted my paper mache wings. No problem, I just reshaped them, and dried them out under the hand dryer in the girl's bathroom. WOW!