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Evolution V.S. Creation

This project was an second semester Freshman year assignment for Industrial Design students at Philadelphia University.
 
The breif for this assignment was to create a sculpture using two opposing themes like Hot and Cold, or Night and Day. 
 
The themes I chose for this sculpture were Evolution and Creation. They're two themes that are constantly debated and very personal for me and my views on life. 
Started with a sketch to decide the symbols I wanted to depict the two themes. 
 
The hand is God
 
And the line of creatures is the Evolution of Man. 
I then went into some 3D sketch models to figure out the arangement and the gesture of the hand.
 
I decided to base the gesture of the hand of God off of Michaleangelo's painting "The Creation of Adam" on the ceiling of the Sistine Chappel. 
Once the Gesture of the hand was decided, I began to Make the final sculpture out of blue foam covered in spackle. 
Evolution V.S. Creation
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Evolution V.S. Creation

The Basis of this project was to create a sculpture that combined two different themes into one sculpture. I chose Evolution and Creation.

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