Leak Sculpture

A common leak inspired the piece I am submitting. At my work very often (more often than I wish) there are leaks…because leaks also happen in life…and water not only appears from nice and idilic landscapes but also from cracks in surfaces, from a malfunction or a failure. On the other hand itself, a leak is the confirmation/statement that the water as liquid is unstoppable and has connotations of being very adaptive to new situations and overcoming obstacles. The piece is divided in two material differentiated parts, the little metallic piece represents visually the rhythm of the sound of a drop when falling: plop-plop-plop…each little hole in the metallic piece is a ‘plop’ of a new drop as well as the metallic material of a pipe and then the big canvas part: the water tumultuously big with the silvery colour when coming out of the metallic pipe, almost metallic liquid itself, just as the water looks like when falling down through a pipe.