Ideas for lantern from Jellyfish

I just found blog full of beautiful images of Jellyfish, and the pictures gave me an idea to make a lantern out of wire first then cover it with very thin fabric that is transparent.

http://animalssafairs.blogspot.tw/2012/08/whatare-jellyfish-fish-in-disguised.html

Transforming 2D Images from Art History into 3D Arts

  The first artist i that came to my mind was Salvador Dali, the bizarre and supernatural quality of his subjects have a great potential to be transformed into 3D sculptures.
  One of Dali's signature is the elongated legs of animals such as horse and elephants.Some of them even have houses put over their back. I can apply the thick and thin contrast on my sculpture. The second image has those female figures with drawers extending from their chest and bellies. I think Jean has done it with tape already, so i might use cardboard or plaster to do it.

  The third image of book pages evolving to a butterfly's wing and then to a mother holding her baby. The layers of the book showed repetition and the whole painting was balanced with respect to the middle line. 

  Melting clock could be done by clay, but instead of painting the textures, i will cut card boards  into the shapes and hang them with kite strings.

  The right figure is a combination of eye, wood, and a pair of  muscular but thin legs. I can find a wood block, and build two legs with clay, but i'll probably change the eye to a nose or a mouth.

  The subject has very strong features, but the thing that is catching my attention is the way the face "stands" in the landscape - it is supported by few thin and unstable sticks. I can carve the face from plaster, well, with different kinds of features, and then use the same technique and stand the sculpture up with some seemingly weak stands. 

Potential Concentration Ideas

  For my concentration i've thought of doing more projects related to scales, as the technique i used in my mask project. I like the scaly texture and the repetitive patterns, they can show flowing motion and they are characteristic elements. Besides the leaf shape i used on my mask, i can cut other shapes of scales and put them in different patterns.
  I have to think about more themes, though. So far i have mermaids, fish, snakes, and monsters. Literally, scales can grow from anything, the objects don't necessarily have to be sea creatures, i can also make hand-shape sculptures and add scales on them. If my chameleon doesn't turn out so well with the paint, maybe it will look better with scale outfits.
  I saw the creative sculptures made of pencils and toothpicks on the collegeboard portfolios, and what really grabbed my attention was the quantity of those little components. I was fascinated by  how the artist transformed daily-life materials to art pieces that work together so well, and now i saw the same potential in using scales. This weekend i checked out Blanca's blog of last year and i found an artist called Fenella Elms who also created repetitive sculptures. Instead of using materials in daily-life she made her own basic shapes with tokens made from ceramics. This gave me another inspiration - using different kinds of materials to construct my works.

I am still looking for more possibilities, i have had many kinds of materials, but i still need a central concept to build my projects on, otherwise they won't be concentration.

  The second idea for concentration is the nowadays problem of “using smartphones too much”. I want to convey the severity of this problem by depicting the figures that are ignorant of their surroundings. It can be sculptures in human figures, it can be phone-shape large scale constructions.