This was my second project for my Sculpture class this semester. The teacher (Sonny Park) made it pretty open-ended. We just had to make something out of wood and it had to relate to the human body in some way.

My initial idea for this project was to make a ball or something with an interesting texture -- I wanted someone who saw it to just *want* to pick it up and explore the surface. But then, one day my roommate, Matt, brought home a yellow-jacket wasp that he had caught inside the plastic box he was eating his lunch in. I asked him if I could sketch it, and of course he let me. As I was drawing it, I noticed that I was paranoid that it'd somehow get out of the box and sting me -- and it occured to me that that was the exact type of visceral reaction I wanted for my sculpture -- only backwards. Of course, I had to add my own spin to it (it's been recently pointed out to me that I'm a "drama-queen") heh.

So if the dripping venom sac and sharp-pointy-stabbing thing in its hand weren't enough, I had to throw in the under-lighting. Actually, I was covering my bases -- you see, the teacher really had in mind that our projects should be interactive (one student made a puppet, another a set of blocks). So i added in the lightswitch and lightbulb. OoOoh how I love electricity. And yes, I shocked myself building the damn circuit (as I do building any art project that has electricity involved, neh Mrs. Sanders?).

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