Let's Get Serious (Suicide Prevention)

My final project for Sculpture class was on a more serious topic. It had to do with suicide (More specifically suicide prevention). I choose to do this topic for this project because I know a few people that were considering suicide and that used to physically harm themselves. Part of the project was also to use plaster and cast your hand in a position that reflected your topic.

Overall Project

Problem: Create sculpture that today's society faces problems with.

Solution: Suicide and preventing it. The top half has encouraging quotes and words, the bottom half has words that real live people that suffer from suicidal thoughts and self harming have used to describe what they think of themselves. The hands represent recovery because they are putting band-aids over the cuts and therefore are choosing to continue on and live life.

   
                                                                           

This is the hand gesture I choose which is putting band-aids on cuts or scars which symbolizes that "Wounds will heal and so will you."