Pedagogical Self-Portrait

This lamp sculpture represents all that I want to embody as an art educator. It is made of scrap metal bent and welded together, a hand-forged hook to attach the lamp shade that's structure with steel rods. It's wrapped with plastic cling-wrap and organic forms of transparent paper that's painted with window paint. The electrical cord is wrapped in blue thread, and the steel/aluminum aspects are spray painted shades of blue. As a future educator I hope for my classroom to feel warm, welcoming, and safe. The shape of the lampshade is an octahedron, which in Sacred Geometry symbolizing rebirt...