A Natural History of the Senses: Sculpture

 A Natural History of the Senses: Sculpture

(The Nature of Museums From a Viewer's Stance: wood, acrylic paint, paper, Photoshop, aluminum paper, shadow boxes, 20 x 18 x 2.5 in)

Artist Statement

The sculpture explores how viewers of art have different experiences of interpretation. A group of frames with comedic characters were created to emphasize the theme of different meanings. Three shadow boxes framed with historical art pieces were used to describe a setting in a museum. The comedic characters explained the internal thinking processes of the viewers’ interpretations of the historical art pieces. All four shadow boxes were placed in a triangular pattern to balance the emphasis of each frame. The sculpture reminds us all about how we live in a diverse culture full of expression. The comedic twist emphasizes the importance of this sculpture because of its ability to combine past and current algorithms of artistic style. 

In-Process Photos

Start of 1/4 shadow box exhibits

Photoshop creation of comedic figures

Printout of comedic figures

Inspiration

Marie-Ange Brayer: https://www.frac-centre.fr/_en/exhibitions/in-site/archilab/archilab-492.html

Odine Lang: https://uponafold.com/2011/08/09/odine-lang/

Ann Wood and Dean Lucker: https://mymodernmet.com/nature-sculpture-woodlucker/