Artist Statement

(Final piece will be added tomorrow)

My piece is a Christmas tree made out of Christmas ornaments. I was inspired to make this piece as ornaments are a consistent shape and have a large range of colors, making them a good object to create with. I decided to make the ornaments of varying size and give the tree and gradient shading to add dimension and variety. A struggle I had is that circles are not very geometric shape and are hard to fit in with each other due to their smooth and symmetrical shape making there be odd sized gaps between some of the ornaments. I also had trouble choosing which size bulbs to put where in order to create an equal distribution of the different sized ornaments. I worked through this by changing some of the bulb sizes to fit better. I also found a picture of a pine tree to put in the background so that I could make sure I was creating the general shape I was going for. I want people to feel joy when they look at my project, as it reminds me of the holidays. I would recommend to anyone doing this project that they should use shapes that interlock well with each other as this would make spacing more efficient. If I were to redo this project in the future I might have made the ornaments different sizes or added additional objects to piece to help balance out spacing of the circles.