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| 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:
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| Clarina Bezzola https://clarinabezzola.com/ |
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| Meret Oppenheim Website |
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| Marcel Duchamp https://www.toutfait.com/unmaking_the_museum/Paris%20Air.html |
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