These three sculptures, made for Danny Rozin's Project Development Studio course, are meant to bring attention to the ways that contemporary sculpture can be interactive. The first piece, "Flintstones Chewable Viagra," is little more than the title suggests, and while viewers are discouraged from touching the piece with a "Do Not Touch" sign, the potential for consumption is always arrestingly present. The second piece, "Fancy Clancy," is a Tom Clancy novel bound in the brittle jacket of a circa 1745 religious tract. While the sign on its pedastal reads "Handle Carefully," the brittleness of the book and its placement on a lighted pedastal makes the viewer uncomfortable with touching the historical artifact. Here the piece blurs the line between static sculpture and interactive installation, a blurring that is echoed in its mixing of "high" and "low" art. The third piece, "Macro Scratchoffs," is a wide-format print covered in scratchable silver paint. Basically a large scratchoff lottery ticket, viewers are invited to scratch the paint off, revealing the various pictures beneath. In the process of interacting with this piece, viewers will forever change it, essentially transforming it from interactive sculpture to two-dimensional wallhanging. This is interactivity in its most violent manifestation--where the very status of the piece in our taxonomy is forever altered. Ultimately, all three of these pieces hole their own as artistic objects, but viewed together they illustrate some of the problems confronting contemporary art.

Each of the pieces required a great deal of brainstorming, research, and trial and error. I learned about the chemistry of vitamins, the ins and outs of bookbinding, and the secrets of highly scratchable paint.

Artists, art collectors, casual viewers of art

Users with view and interact with each piece separately, and attempt to connect them in their own minds.

Flinstones Chewable Viagra: Flinstones vitamins, gelatin, food coloring, water, Viagra.

Fancy Clancy: 1745 edition of \"Dux Spiritualis,\" brand new copy of Tom Clancy\'s \"The Hunt For Red October\" from Barnes & Noble, tea bags, oven grease, craft glue, copper leaf, rubber cement.

Macro Scratchoffs: Wide-format photo prints, latex paint, silver flakes, matte spray sealer.

There is hope for art to be more interactive, if it is careful and deliberate about how it does so.