Tuesday, October 7, 2008

With Broken Wings

My installation is about negative space and the attempts made through memory and object to fill that space. Inspired by the Gutai group of the 1950’s my piece attempts to visually and literally demonstrate the act of holding on to a memory or object. “The process of damage or destruction is celebrated as a way of revealing the inner "life" of a given material or object…” (Gutai Manifesto).
The bird cage is traditionally a tool used for confinement. Here it is recycled into an art piece, where it is used to capture an object of recollection. My art piece intends to remind the viewer of memory and the ways in which we try to capture and hold on to it.

1 comment:

susan york said...

This paper is a very good beginning. Please go into more detail and write 250 words.