What is not visible hear in the picture is that one of the heads has a speaker in it and it repeatedly asks the same questions...trying to call attention to the viewer. The colourful ball sculpture has a motor in the middle which stirs the balls.
What Colour Are You?
Welded Steel and Wool Fleece
My work has dealt with the exploration
of combining wool and steel and trying to find a balance between the two. I
have concluded that the steel often ends up being a support or container for
the wool. The idea that the steel could be construed as masculine and the wool
as female was my original starting point. I felt the need to defend the idea
that working in wool and using it as a sculpture tool is not to be designated
as craft but serious art. In the end I was lead to the conclusion of “who
cares”. The steel is stronger and holds the wool and that’s okay....just as the
wool is soft and colourful and allows the steel to shine.
This piece is my attempt to
display a visual reference for the oneness of mankind. People, though they may
look different and believe different things are all human beings made of flesh
and soul and spirit.
The idea that your life does not
affect mine is for me an illusion and construe of society to allow bad things
to happen in the name of the greater good. I believe that even though you live in
a far away country and I have no visible relationship to you...your life
affects mine in the matrix of mankind. The reality that you live in will change
the reality that I live in and vice versa
If I Told You My Story...Would You Listen?
Wool Fleece and Media
This installation piece is the
beginning of a larger piece that will explore the stories we tell about the
lives we live. The faces are the untold stories of women as they meet and
interrelate with one another. I want the viewer to listen to the stories that
are told but I also want the viewer to imagine and hear the story themselves by
looking at the faces and listening to what they hear.
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