HEDY
ERIK
JOHN
TOM
DOUGLAS
KRISTENSunday, March 22, 2009
PLANS
Layout of Tower Assembly, by John. Four of these will make up the sides of the sculpture. Erik and Hedy went on a lumber run and all materials are secured. Time to build!
CONCEPT
Imagine a 3-dimensional assemblage sculpture, a shrine to life.OVERVIEW
The sculpture is a 4-sided assemblage of chaotic harmony, a tribute to evolution, starting with life from the oceans at the bottom, moving upwards to land-based life, and finally to creatures of the sky at the top.
I am envisioning: The bottom constructed of glass panes with blue gels for water and featuring aquatic life, from fish to coral. Midway represents land-based life featuring bicycle wheels with imagery incorporated in between the spokes. Nooks, crannies, boxes and cases will contain decoupaged images and mini sculptures. Onward to the sky filled with birdcages and birds. The crown is a Darwin Finch of sculpted maché.
BUILD
The shrine itself is an evolution of objects. Because it will be comprised of “found material,” it is difficult to depict exactly what it will look like, but I have made a mockup of two of the four sides to illustrate what I am envisioning.
SCULPTURE
Salvaged architectural details, windows, doors, bottle caps, fixtures, hardware, etc., make up the bones that keep the sculpture orderly. The thrill of the hunt (and find!) is the exciting and creative part of this kind of sculpture.
I am envisioning: The bottom constructed of glass panes with blue gels for water and featuring aquatic life, from fish to coral. Midway represents land-based life featuring bicycle wheels with imagery incorporated in between the spokes. Nooks, crannies, boxes and cases will contain decoupaged images and mini sculptures. Onward to the sky filled with birdcages and birds. The crown is a Darwin Finch of sculpted maché.
BUILD
The shrine itself is an evolution of objects. Because it will be comprised of “found material,” it is difficult to depict exactly what it will look like, but I have made a mockup of two of the four sides to illustrate what I am envisioning.
SCULPTURE
Salvaged architectural details, windows, doors, bottle caps, fixtures, hardware, etc., make up the bones that keep the sculpture orderly. The thrill of the hunt (and find!) is the exciting and creative part of this kind of sculpture.
Chaotic Harmony {?}: A Burning Man 09 Installation
“It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.” Charles Darwin
Maybe the true beauty and connectivity of art is that it provides no definitive answers. Maybe its power rests empirically in its questions. I’ve always found great comfort and reward in hearing, watching, sometimes just feeling new questions in participants. Questions I didn’t contemplate during its rearing.
So, here are my questions: What do I see when I think of a tangled bank? What do I craft of plants and singing birds on bushes? How do I see beautiful people swarming like insects about my exhibit, some stopping for nectar, some flying to other flowers? Would you call these constructed forms elaborate? Are they really all that different from each other? Is this concept of dependency truly a complex manner? Are all of these things truly produced by definitive laws? Who makes the laws, I ask you?
Have a seat, friend. Ask a question. If it be from your heart, you may not leave with an answer, but you will leave…changed. Just by asking the question.
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