This sculpture connects the floor to the ceiling conceptually. The floor has been selected as the end of life, and the ceiling is the beginning. This was a difficult choice for our group. We had opinions on both sides and flipped a coin to decide. The floor does make sense as death because our eventual return to the earth by means of burial. There is a coffin in the piece to represent death (along with a broken black crayon, a ruler, and a static, lifeless paintbrush. The layout of the piece can be seen as delivery by stork to burial.
The theme was also the life of an artist. We chose different art supplies that we might use at different stages of art development. There is also "milestone" bricks that showcase different time periods in out lives. The piece was not an autobiographical sketch of any one person, but a composite of our ideas about the generic life of a fictional artist.
This piece is really busy and hectic. That is because life is hectic. There is a lot of things going on.
Some of the unresolved questions that remain to be answered in the piece are:
What happens between marriage and death? Is it a career that leaves no time for art?
Does every life of every artist look like this?
Where is it really originating?
How does it interact with the site?
My role in the creation of this piece was to help come up with the concept cooperatively with my group members. We all had differing ideas that we tried to incorporate. I placed the cables that connect the piece from floor to ceiling, and did most of the ladder work.
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