This document discusses yard art sculptures made of car parts by an artist on Hershey Road. It includes close-up photos of the sculptures, questions for the artist, and his answers describing how the pieces were constructed from salvaged materials and have stood for years. Other examples of car part art are shared, and ideas are provided for student art making activities, math lessons, and creative writing inspired by the sculptures.
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Gallery of Student Writing
Shernel Woodman
Principles of Design
“Train of Thought” by Leo Bridle
Simple Outline
“A Journey for Love”
I. Leo Bridle and Ben Thomas were the film makers.
a. I believe they are in their late 20s and early 30s, and they graduated from the Arts Institute at Bournemouth.
b. From the United Kingdom.
II. The basic structure of the artwork is Film.
a. Material used was digital compositing software and all the animations were done by hand and not the compositing software.
b. The subject of the seemed to be the young artist and he seemed to have been in search of someone. Everything seemed to be between and a gray/sepia scale with a design using cut outs and wooden toys.
III. I think this whole film was based on love.
a. My 1st idea is that he is trying to find the woman he loved. He may have seen her before at the station and drawn her out of memory and may have come back to find her there. When he didn’t, he hopped on the train in search for her only to come up empty. I believe he used his drawing pad as some sort of map as to where she may have been. When he doesn’t find her, he returns to the station once again and this time, he finds her. He then realizes that she may be an artist as well and may have gone through the same processes to find each other.
b. My 2nd idea is that he may have drawn her as well as the other drawings in his book subconsciously and realized this was a woman he had to meet. He then returns to the train station, which is the setting of his drawing. When she doesn’t come, he hops on the train and then goes in search for the woman that he loves. When he doesn’t find her he returns back to the station and that is where he finally sees her. They go towards each other and hold hands, seeming like they both went through the same measures to find each other.
I think the way the film makers used photography and film made this a very interesting form of media. Everything looked cartooned and real at the same time. The train station and the train themselves looked like they were made out of wooden toys and the people all looked like cut outs that were animated to look like they were moving, inside of their cut out frames. This was a well done film and they filmmakers did a wonderful job. I must say it sure caught my attention.
Linda Hoffman-Ostroff
Techniques, Materials, and Form
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Story Style
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My color is milky white and thus a maiden is born... I was created by the great sculptural artist Ernst Wenck in 1901. He created my soft white body by using his strong meticulous hands. He is indeed an artist. I was created in a time when conservatism was not very popular. Because of my intricate detail and the delicate image I carry I became a model for porcelain miniatures.
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6. Questions About The Works of
Art
How are the pieces standing?
Where did the ideas for the pieces
come from?
Did he have influences or inspiration
from anything in particular?
How long have you been making these
pieces?
Do they take a long time to create?
7. Questions About The Works of
Art Cont.
What are they made out of?
Where did you get the materials?
How many art pieces have you made?
Are there going to be more pieces in
the future?
Did you make all of the pieces by
yourself or did you have help making
them?
8. Answers to Questions
The pieces are standing because part of
them are buried.
“Rocket ship”- “It just is!” “Crazy the wind
hasn’t knocked it down.”
He just comes up with ideas.
He has been making these pieces for
awhile now. They take awhile to make and
he does them mostly on his own,
sometimes with help from friends.
9. Answers to Questions Cont.
They are all made from car parts, (boats),
and metal. Most of which he got from the
junk yard.
He has made the ones that are in the
pictures plus others that have rusted too
much to keep over the years. “Things have
come and gone”
He might make new pieces in the future, but
at the moment wasn’t sure. “Possibly in the
fall”
10. Other Works of Art Made from
Car Parts
http://www.thedesignblog.org/entry/old
-car-parts-salvaged-into-beautiful- http://artsyspot.com/amazing- http://chrocodiles.blogspot.com/2010/1
sculptures/ sculptures-made-out-of-car-parts 0/amazing-sculptures-made-from-old-
car.html
11. Social, Cultural, Historical
Context
The Rocket Ship which has “USA 2000”
written on it was created for the new
Millennium.
On New Years Eve the family brought a TV
outside and watched the millennium turn
while the Rocket was lit.
The artist placed 49 Flame Throwers into
parts of the rocket to make it appear as if it
was ready for lift off.
12. Possible Lines of Inquiry/ Key
Ideas
Line of Inquiry Key Ideas
•From looking at •Every piece of art
the art on Hershey seen here is made
Rd. what would from old car parts.
you make from •Done for enjoyment.
car parts if you •Creativity played a
had the chance large role in creating
to? these pieces.
• What is your
opinion on the
pieces of art?
13. Experiential Activity Ideas
Art: Children will create their own
sculptures with reused materials.
Math: Children will predict how tall the
Hershey Road art is and describe what
they would use to measure each piece.
Literature: Students will piece one piece
of his work and create a fictional story
about it’s origins.
14. Mind Map/ Flowchart
Inquiry
Noticing Questioning
Work of Art
Hershey
Road Art
Curriculum Experiential Art
Making Activities
Expression
