Found Object

Soo here's my found object project. The object that I chose to build with was a propeller that I found in my grandfather's junk pile. He used to always work on boat motors as a hobby and I remember being completely fascinated with watching them in motion as a kid. I only found 3 actual propellers and since this wasn't enough to really build with I decided to choose it as my object to cast for my ceramics casting class, so most of these are clay. The arc structure that is binding the propellers is made from various things that I found in my junk/art room which consisted of things like 1/4 inch rod, rubber pipe, mesh tape, masking tape, wire and then I unified these with a few layers of paper mache. I just wanted to create a form that emphasized this idea of motion that propellers make me think of. I wanted to try and add a sense of mystery to the piece as well by making it appear as if the propellers were entering the ground and re-emerging in a cork screw /spiral shape but I think this could have been conveyed better if I would have cut the propellers near the ground to make it appear as if they were entering the ground, but I liked the way they freely balanced and I knew cutting them would cause some stability issues. Originally there would have also been a second smaller light blue segement to balance the seperate dark blue one which would have also helped show the cork/spiral entering/re-emerging from the ground, but I used those 3 propellers in our metal project, and I definitely like them in that one more.