Arts Explorer #2: Instant Sculpture (Vitamin Head)

According to the Oxford Dictionary of Current English (Soanes, Hawker, & Elliott, 2006), failure is:

n. 1 a lack of success. 2 an unsuccessful person or thing. 3 a situation in which something stops functioning. 4 an instance of not doing something that is expected: her failure to comply with the rules.

My first attempt at an instant sculpture was something of a failure. I thought it would be neat to make a DNA-spiral-tower out of red books, but it collapsed... so I'm going with another idea: vitamin head.
At breakfast, my boyfriend suggested I use all the vitamins we'll take this week to craft a sculpture. Yay, health!

The pile includes vitamin C, vitamin D, chlorella and zinc:

Here's my vitamin head.

My art word of the week is line, the first of the artistic elements.

According to Schirrmacher and Fox (2009), a line

• is a visible mark made by an artistic tool, such as a crayon, moved across a surface, such as paper.
• is a continuation of a dot.
• usually suggests direction, movement, rhythm, or form.
• does not exist in nature. Nature produces edges. Artists produce lines to represent edges.
• helps the artist define shapes and contours or represent edges.
• is something we use to make letters, words, numbers, symbols, and signs (p. 135).

I used raised lines to represent the edges of Vitamin Head's face.

What I'm wondering now is: is this really a sculpture? Is it just a silhouette? Or an outline?
The edge of a sculpture produces a line between the object and the space around it - my sculpture is comprised of lines made by laying vitamins in strategic positions. So, I'm not sure if it's just lines or really could be called a sculpture. For now, the mystery continues...
In connection to the field of ECE, I had a good time using trial and error to come up with an idea that worked. I think children are usually better than we older people at saying 'get over it, try something else', and we can learn from them. This assignment also gave me the chance to use everyday objects in a novel way, and I think the act of doing this pushes us creatively. How many ways can you use a paper clip? Or a vitamin? Or a pencil? So many possibilities...


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References

Schirrmacher, R., & Fox, J. E. (2009). Art and creative

     development for young children. Belmont, CA:

     Delmar.

Soanes, C., Hawker, S., & Elliott, J. (Eds.). (2006). Oxford 

     Dictionary of Current English (4th ed.). New York: Oxford

     University Press.