My name is Will Schorre and I am an Interdisciplinary Sculpture major. I completed an internship MICA so we were acquainted but
the way I got this internship was by way of a Facebook post that Jimmy Joe
Roche made. In his post he was asking for an intern with a certain set of
skills, most all of which were skill that I have. I contacted him and told him
that I have most all of the skills that he listed in his post and that I would
like to work with him. We planned to meet for lunch and talk about what the
internship would require and it seemed like a good fit.
Jimmy Joe Roche is
a multidisciplinary artist working mainly in Film and Video and Sculpture. His
sculptures are usually large wall hanging cut paper pieces with many layers
woven together creating a mandala type forms. I have been helping Jimmy with
making some new sculptures using wood. We have been creating vector files of
the designs for the sculptures and cutting the designs on a CNC router. The
pieces that have been cut then will be assembled to create three dimensional
forms, some free standing, and some that hang on a wall. One of the main things
I have been involved in working on as a part of this project has been how to
join the pieces of this sculpture together. I am really interested in CNC
joinery, and figuring out the most efficient ways to join things, so this has
been a fun task for me
I think working
with Jimmy I have learned a lot about what it means to make work using
technology like the CNC router. I have learned especially of what a complex way
of thinking and working these digital fabrication techniques require. I have
enjoyed also to be able to talk with Jimmy about the things were making and
things that I have been working on in some of my other classes.
