For my first concentration piece I used the themes of balance and line, with wire, to show a sub-theme of "The Least, the Last, and the Lost". When I was down in Guatemala, freshman year, for our church youth group mission trip, our church missionary who we worked with down in Guatemala, used the example of a little girl finding a purple flower in the midst of trash on a street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to portray this theme. It is like God seeing the purple flowers in the world (the least, the last, and the lost: drug takers, gang members, poor …) in the midst of the trash of the world and helping them; and we need to see them too, to help them. So that is what I portrayed; "The Least, the Last, and the Lost" by making a wire flower and wrapping the petals in purple thread, and putting it in the middle of twisting, turning wire wrapping itself around the flower trying to cover it up so that no one else can see it or help it.
The structure of this sculpture give it a cool look. I like how it takes on a different look from every angle you look at it. The groups of more than just one spiral also draws in the eye. I think the groups of spirals within all of the single spirals give it more of a heavy look in parts and light in others which also gives it more of a vine look which is cool.
ReplyDeleteI love the art and the description is great, but be prepared to let the art speak for itself separate from the explanation. I love that you used thread around the wire, instead of just painting the wire, to make the flower. It makes it thicker, more different among the chaos. I like your loopy form with wire.
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