This was a sculpture I built in college for my first class.
For my first art project in college, we were asked to make a "visual metaphor" based on something we saw while on an hour-long walk around Gainesville. I decided to make a broken home after passing by several dilapidated houses far from the bustle of the University of Florida campus.
I decided to create half of a "perfect" doll house, where the side facing the street is pure white and pristine and the inside was cold, dark, and empty. I built the house myself in the wood shop after sketching all of my plans, and I bought a 16" x 20" pane of clear glass to cover the back side of house. I broke the glass with a hammer and meticulously used glass-specific super glue to put all of the pieces back together. On the inside of the house, I painted silhouettes for fictional family members, as well as created a 3D figure out of ceramic. When you look through the hole where the center of the glass was broken, you can see the 3D figure swinging a bat towards the glass, as though to break it from the inside.
