Jack Peter Wilson is an aspiring sculptor,
studying at the Southern Institute of Technology. He was born in Masterton, 1998. He is an average looking kid with light brown
hair and bright blue eyes. His most notable feature is a mischievous sparkle in
his eyes, aside from his rather large head and hands. Jack is very good at sports and art and has
an athletic build. He is studying
sculpture and hopes to graduate in this field as a stepping stone for him to
get into a landscape designer position.
Jack is the second youngest of nine
children and is from a joint family.
This large family dynamic has caused jack to find his own path, most
others in the family went into farming around the Wairarapa. The Wairarapa is
the area around Masterton, from which Jack is from and encompasses five
different townships and is most commonly recognized for its farming of sheep
and its wine producers.
Jacks likes to wear jeans and shirts and is
rarely seen out of them even if they have been worn multiple times that
week. Jacks most valuable possession is
a family signet ring which has been passed down through the generations. It has his family crest upon it, three
blackbirds on a white field. Jack hardly ever is without this ring but is
considerate enough to take it off while working.
Jack is sort of a recluse and doesn’t like crowds
which at times make him slightly hard to understand as he has a slight mumble
in his voice. Jack has a good work ethic
and is very studious but gets caught up in small details of the making and ends
up rushing the work in the last day. Jacks
tutor, Ruth Myers likes to push jack out of his comfort zone and try to create
new things from different materials.
Jacks favourite subject is sculpture and in
the context of this story is making a head from clay, which is supplied by Ruth
from the materials cupboard. This clay
head is part of an assignment for Ruth’s class, creating a head from clay as
realistically as possible. (Figures are allowed.) While jack has been able to create a decent
face he is having a problem with creating the hair for the character. He tries a multiple of different ways and
with each attempt gets more and more frustrated. Jack then decides to change the nature of his
character by rolling some noodles from clay and attaching them to the head,
creating a Medusa head.
Jack paints the gorgon head a grey,
stoneish colour in reference to the story of Perseus slaying Medusa, her head
turning to stone after he chopped it off.
As jack paints this work Ruth leaves the room to mark some other
assignment work. Jack likes the look of
the gorgon he has painted but thinks it needs one last thing so he starts to
paint the eyes with a reddish glow, and as he paints the last spot they open up
turning jacks horrified body to stone.
The
next scene shows Jacks petrified stone body in a gallery with a large crowd
laughing and clapping.
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