Portmanteau Casting Project

Jun 17

Foundation 164 Visual Art Core
Instructor Henry Tsang

A portmanteau is a linguistic blend of words, such as cyborg (cybernetic + organism), skyscraper (sky + scraper), and Brexit (Britain + exit), whereas a compound is a combination of two words, like karaoke (karappo + okesutura, or empty + orchestra in English) and skyscraper (sky + scraper). Choose an existing portmanteau, or devise one of your own, then make a sculpture of it by casting it in plaster or another material of your choice.