Hannah Rose Garrido: May 2023

A Natural History of the Senses Relief Sculpture

A Button Before
wood, gloss varnish, vintage buttons
24in x 13in x 2 ½in

Artist Statement:

I respond to the nostalgia associated with this object, the button. The antique buttons are from the past, still on the cardboard to be sold, they never made it to the dressmakers. I think of people touching these small objects to fasten their clothes and mothers buttoning up a child's jacket. Formally, I am attracted to the individual design of buttons. The colors, textures and motifs. I find these particular buttons alluring due to the pearl like quality.

Inspiration:

Lisa Kokin

http://www.lisakokin.com/buttonworks-one.html

Amalia A. Amaki
https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/souleo-visual-artists-pushing-buttons-ways-one/

Beau Mccall
https://beaumccall.com/

Memento

Untitled
wood, fabric, gloss varnish

2 ½" x 2 ½" x 2 ½"

Artist Statement:

This sculpture is from a personal memory that I experienced when looking for my mother’s belongings. When I was five, my mother passed away and throughout my childhood I did not have many of her things. In the summer before my junior year of high school, I went into the attic to find some of my mother’s belongings. While I was up there, my foot went through the ceiling below. I chose to represent this memory by creating a box out of wood to be representative of a cardboard box I found her belongings in. I made handmade roses out of the fabric of an old shirt of hers. I chose roses because roses were one of her favorite flowers and that is the middle name, she gave me. I put the roses around a hole that I made in the bottom of the box which symbolizes that while something of hers is in the box that she herself is not present. The hole also connects to the memory because of the fall through the attic floor. I coated the outside of the box with a gloss varnish to resemble the shiny sheets of plastic that were in the photo albums in the box I found.

Inspiration:

Clarina Bezzola
https://clarinabezzola.com/

Meret Oppenheim
Website

Marcel Duchamp
https://www.toutfait.com/unmaking_the_museum/Paris%20Air.html

Experimental Sculpture Collection

Rooted Island (back), A Contorted Infinity (left), and Community (right) wood, thread, wire, masking tape, gel medium, gesso, ink Tallest sculpture is 14in in height

Sculpture 1

Sculpture 2

Sculpture 3

Artist Reflection Statement:

The three-sculpture collection consisting of Rooted Island, A Contorted Infinity, and Community are all non-objective works that explore organic forms and lines. My intent with these sculptures was to visually communicate ideas and I wanted to focus on a specific goal for each piece to try and create a piece that exemplifies that goal. I strived to create negative space for Rooted Island, focal point for A Contorted Infinity, and repetition for Community. This piece allowed me to explore manipulating materials to make them look entirely different and challenging me to not use them for their traditional use. I want to keep exploring and to learn of different ways one can manipulate material to create something that looks entirely different from what it did originally