I have been looking for artists who abstract the human form and Thierry-guenand is my favorite. Also, the figures are outlined which makes it easier for me to read the form. The forms are a bit harsh. I am looking for a softer quality for the abstract shapes I will try to create in my sculptures but I can alter whatever forms I find to make them softer like the bodies in impressionistic paintings. Tomorrow I plan on bending strips of acrylic and scoring the edges to hold the threads. I will make a few different structures and stretch thread over them and hopefully I will make a decision or come closer to a decision in regards to what type of structure will work best.

Samantha has suggested that I look at Picasso and the way he breaks up the body. Thinking about this I became inspired. Cubism is based on looking at objects or figures from different angles and recording all these different views on one dimension. Since my project revolves around the idea that we perceive the world actively, including looking around and from different angles and processing all this actively gathered information in the brain, I was thinking maybe I could use the cubist process in my project. I want to have 3 different sculpture forms standing together. I was thinking that maybe instead of just making these sculptures different forms, I could make them take the shape of one abstract figure form but each would be what it would be what that form would look like from a different angle.