We/Me


7.75" x 20" Mixed Media Sculpture




We/Me (for sale, inquire about price)
3-11-03	1-27-03
Alex's Comments	Bethany's Comments
This one came slower to me. I gave it a good hard look once it was done, and then the next day the bridge came into my head. But bridge over what? I had a sense that I wanted a serpentine feeling to the path initially, with the bridge being smaller than it turned out. But again, material choice intervened. Working with Sculpey for the first time was lots of fun, and then once I'd mounted it to the piece, I had this intense desire to mold everything around the bridge with gel medium. I wanted to show the water, the grass, the path, and the transitions between everything as very fluid, like the dreams and ideas in our lives. Only the bridge itself, where we gain a little altitude and perspective, remains solid. From here we look out on the situations and dreams we create and recreate. Everything grows and changes, flows and branches. This and the 'we' is my response to the 'me' in a maze.	I was doing a very introspective thing with this canvas. I wanted to get to something inside myself. It turned out to be a maze and it was at the same time meant to be a challange for him and an exploration, in a rather pure and simple way. All-white spaces can fill me with wonder. I wanted it to be an invitation to creativity. This canvas was cut off of the same board as the first canvas, representing the same underlying themes at play. I covered it with bits of colorful paper and gesso, to represent that things were getting more colorful but, it was still mostly hidden under the gesso. (The atmosphere of purity and protection.) The maze walls were built with pipe insulation, covered in gesso. Again, I was finding myself in hardware stores to complete a canvas. I think this canvas is very representational of what is happening in this work. It's a big one, in my mind.