Wire Tree Reflection

I enjoyed working with wire. It was a really fun experience.

Main difficulties:

• Kept poking/scratching myself with the wires
• Thicker pieces of wire (twisted together) were difficult to cut with the wire cutters

Vocabulary/terms in this project: (there really wan't a lot of vocab)

• Adhesive - glue; sticks pieces of wood together, important to use different adhesives for different materials
• Metal wire - slender, string-like piece of metal that can be manipulated through bending or cutting
• Wire cutters - tool used to cut wire

I've never worked with wire before. Mr. Swinehart suggested that I could make a wire tree. I found some pictures, and thought it looked cool. I like the overall composition of my wire sculpture. I used a rock as a base. In a way, the rock can represent Jesus, the foundation. The tree can represent my faith. Through Jesus, my faith can grow like a tree. Anyways, I think I could have done a better job with the roots. I tried to make the roots more "natural" and had some roots longer and more twisted than others. I like the branches. It's nicely spread out. However, it would be even better if I had a wider variety of branches. Overall, the wire sculpture looks decent. I like the silver color of the tree.