Letting go of my plaster sculpture and picking a third one to work on wasn't as difficult as I anticipated. I'm at a point where I'm curious to see what the other student will do with the piece I started, and I have no attachment to the second piece I worked on. Maybe it helped that I really like the shape of the third and final piece I am working on right now. It reminds me of sky and waves. I guess it could be fire just as easily, but I chose to paint it blue. I gave it coats of spray paint in two shades of blue. The next step is to bring silver and gold pens to class and invite the other students to draw and/or write something in it. That really is taking the letting go theme to another level, since I'm relinquishing a lot of my control on how the piece will end up. At the same time, I'm curious and excited to see what will come out of that collaboration. I think the inspiration to this step of the process is a combination of a work I did for a class where passers-by participated in my artwork by writing a word in a colored piece of paper, and the other inspiration is the work of Iskandar Jalil, which I had the privilege to see last month. The image below is one of his pieces that caught my attention—fun and playful, just as I hope mine will turn out to be. Then again, I better let go of this hope as well...

Singapore National Gallery - Iskandar Jalil