Release Sculpture

wood, glass, steel "To die would be an awfully big adventure." J.M. Barrie Release came about after personally facing my own mortality. Confronting my ideas about death and my thoughts about my own death were very different. After having the opportunity to spend time considering my own death, I began to think of it in terms of the beauty of intensity of the experience and the wonder of what the energy that currently is housed in my body will do after it is no longer contained in the vessel labelled "me". This work references the beauty of that possibility and the idealistic thoughts we have about death before it is our own. I choose to use common materials that have a history before they come to me. The wood came from my neighbor's house, a house that was set on fire. The steel chair, a household item from the past represents how I felt as I was coming to terms with death. Death itself does not make any one special. The chair is not special, it is not a throne. In death we are all the same. The smoked glass is a metaphor for the damaged exterior of myself as a human. As beautiful as a surface it is, it will slice human skin open with ease. In covering the simple form of the chair with glass, the illusion of "specialness" is created simultaneously commenting on the fragility of our human form.

Sculpture:Found Objects on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:50 W x 76 H x 50 D in

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