A Trip to The Dentist

The Dentist office. It's a place where some love but also a place where others may hate. For myself, it is the former because I've been an aspiring prospective dental student since high school. From my standpoint, dentistry is the best profession for me because...

• I can be financially stable from the income
• Fulfill my creativity needs because dentistry in itself is art combined with science
• Great time management that would allow me to start and have time for my family
• Respect and that feeling when a patient is helped

However, most people don't see all of these aspects in dentistry from a glance. Particularly, kids are even afraid of the dentist because of some idiots who probably had a bad experience start rumors about evil dentists drilling teeth for revenge (some movie called The Dentist, didn't help resolve this either). So in this next piece, I want to illustrate to my viewers the other aspect of dentistry that have been repressed so much by the movies and folklore.

A typical dental office looks like the picture above. Nothing really fun about that. The fun is in the kid's waiting room! To tap into the helpful, fun, playfully bright side of dentistry, I'm going to use the child-like aspect of enticing kids that pediatric dentists employ.

For casting, I think really want to sugar cast my objects. The main reasoning behind sugar casting is because there is a lot of irony in sugar casting teeth because normally, you wouldn't see a dentist promoting sugar and candy because it would be horrendous for your dental-health. The reasoning why I still choose to sugar cast despite this concept is because (going along with my child-like idea) sometimes you have to indulge and be carefree especially as a kid, so in a sense it's almost like the kid is purging of himself of rules and inhibitions to eat lots of candy, which invokes the kid-aspect of the project further from what I had expected. 

I think for this project, I will be trying to use Roy Lichtenstein's dot rays to detail subtle parts of the project that aren't as important as teeth such as lips so as to not draw too much attention to them.