With my heart and soul belonging on the ice to the sport I've dedicated an ever-growing 15 years to, it's no surprise that it was the inspiration for a project that requires to create a representation of yourself. My stand-in avatar was a wolf sculpted out purely hockey tapes (clear and stick).I chose to create a wolf because I wanted it to be a representation of me, and I wanted to be the furthest from literal as possible. Another huge part of who I am are animals. As a kid, if I wasn't going to make it to the big leagues for hockey I was going to be a vet. I feel a wolf is a creature that represents my personality due to the similarity in qualities such as: working with a team (packs), being very family orientated, loyalty, leadership, and playfulness.
Without making a chaotic object, I wanted to portray the rest of who I am through my audio. Of course hockey was a huge part of it, to help relate to the object (not everyone can identify the use of clear tape). It included the sounds of things I encounter on a regular basis, or sounds that I adore hearing.
Sounds in the piece:- kids playing ball hockey
- myself stickhandling
- Hockey Night In Canada (original) theme song
- small waterfall (turtle tank)
- wolf howling
- myself using clear tape (putting on and taking off my hockey gear)
- heartbeats (anticipation of a game)
- commentary of an NHL broadcasted game
- walking through snow
- a cat purring
- Pokemon theme music
If I could change anything about my project I would have presented my object in its own environment. Perhaps placed the tape wolf on a miniature ice rink and made her a jersey (with my name on the back).
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