BethApArtBlog

Everyday we go through life, adding another clip to the movie titled with our names. Do we ever stop and pause to see what our actions look like? To see what they have done? When filming a movie the directors take their clapper board and say, “Act 5, Scene 3, Take 2 … ACTION!” Essentially, this is what I am doing with my concentration pieces. I am taking peoples lives and saying “ACTION!” After stating the word ACTION I begin to draw the next scene of a persons life with wire twisting and turning it into the shape that fits it best, with a careful process; highlighting certain twists and turns with color. Just like in filming a movie the process just to get the one scene, of this one act involves many takes as well, until I am happy with the out come. Until each scene is ready for the movie. I am the director, and my sculptures are the actors; all I have to do is say the word, “ACTION!” and they do it. The central idea of my concentration is ACTION! For my first piece I froze the frame of action of a man playing a drum, spreading music throughout the world. In my second concentration piece I took the action of two little kids going to the zoo. When I froze the frame being saying the word, “ACTION!” they are getting balloons right when they entered the zoo. In my third freeze frame, I took a shot at capturing the action of an everyday surfer off the coast of Hawaii in a big wave about to curl in and engulf him. Some of the other ACTION shots that I freeze framed are a teenage trick skateboarder, a girl walking her dog, a biker biking up a hill, three girls double-dutching, and a man bowling.