I decided on creating something new, something I thought I would be incapable of doing due to how precious most of my previous pieces meant to me. Holding value over a piece of art, is like having a type of physical memory you can interact with, take that away and all you have is a memory. I started with a temporary art style that incorporated my original idea of using recycled material and in creating something that has value and meaning to me for only a short period of time before disappearing forever. I created two different projects for my 2.0, the Good-bye Puzzle and masks/skulls of my own reflection of how I view myself. This was a continuation of my first project working with recycled plastic materials, only this time I’m not just bringing awareness in maintaining a healthy environment, but also self care. With both of these art projects, I would also like to incorporate the process of creating new materials out of toss-away items within these two sculptures. Before realizing what I wanted to create, my whole idea was just to do something rather than actually doing it, since at the time it was hard for me to have a creative idea or be inspired. I really enjoyed the process of cutting up boards outside my patio and being alone with the continued cycle of chopping wood into smaller and smaller pieces. This therapeutic act that was helping me in not only creating more material to build from but also a way for my mind to become familiar with the material, as well as recharging my mind. I would also like to thank to my art instructor, Leticia Bajuyo for help in discovering a new interest in creating temporary art as a new style. During my college career I was mostly drawn to painting and drawing because I like having a physical remembrance of my emotions and personal thoughts that will forever be on a canvas or a sheet of paper. Memory to me fades to quickly so I hold physical memorials very dear, however what about those memories that we can’t keep as a physical keepsake, does that mean that they weren’t even there. During the process of making my temporary art and the amount of work behind them, those memories/art pieces will continue to hold value just only in a different sense. Just because someone taught you how to ride a bike doesn’t mean you can really forget, but even if you do there still meaning behind that memory and process of learning.
Artist That Have Inspired Me
Angela Haseltine Pozzi
Images: Sculpture of a Loggerhead sea turtle eating a jellyfish, all made from plastic and on the right is the artist, Angela Haseltine Pozzi, posing with Flash the Marlin. Founded in 2010.
I chose Angela Pozzi due to her efforts in informing the public on the impact plastic pollution has on our environment and marine life. During my time studying at Texas A&M University of Corpus Christi almost every biology related course ended up with the problem on plastic pollution towards a certain ecosystem. Finding an artist that created work dealing with this issue and bringing awareness to it, is similar to what I want to do with my art. I try to give a story or a message across with my art so I really enjoyed looking into her life and art work. Angela Haseltine Pozzi was born in Portland, Oregon to a family of artist and naturalist. This inspired her in education and art, which shifted her interest to ocean pollution from plastic and marine debris.
Source to her Washed Ashore exhibit: https://washedashore.org/ Source to the artist bio: https://www.exploratorium.edu/tinkering/tinkerers/angela-haseltine-pozzi
Washed Ashore is a non-profit conservation art project founded by Angela Haseltine Pozzi in 2010. This movie shows the tragedy that inspired her work with the importance of plastic pollution within our oceans.
Beili Liu
Images: These two images are apart of the same installation and performance called, “Each and Every”, created in 2019 where donated clothing were cemented to give this eerie yet permanent realization of children from the border being taken away from their parents.
Beili Liu is a Chinese American visual artist that is recently teaching Art at the University of Texas in Austin. Most of her art work is tied to her Chinese heritage and beliefs, where her sculptures show a strong image that tend to have a greater insight on a certain message she would like to bring to light to her audience. Many of her installations have been displayed around the world from, Asia, Europe, and all around the United States. She is very well known in the art community, one of her well known installations is her Lure (惑 ) series. This exacerbation is about an ancient Chinese legend of "The Red Thread", explaining since birth an individual has an invisible red thread connecting to their soul mates and through time the tread becomes shorter. This sculpture is an example of how she uses her materials given to show a striking message that allows for the audience to interact with certain space she gave within her installations.
Facebook Critique video source: https://mtouch.facebook.com/pg/TAMUCCcla/videos/?ref=page_internal&mt_nav=0
Artist 1: Jim Sanborn
Jim Sanborn, Kryptos
Jim Sanborn was born 14, November of 1945. An American sculptor with a Master of Fine Arts. Creating sculptural work with themes that include "making the invisible visible", which include many of his art works incorporating secret messages, illusions such as coriolis force, stone, and using magnetism for this art. One of his well known sculptures is, "Kryptos", (which can be seen above) has encrypted messages within the 300 plus characters within the sculpture that is located within the CIA headquarters. Only a hand full of ace code-breakers with the CIA, working for months to crack only a dent of codes that are within the Kryptos. He also creates photos and images were it is produced by a large direct light projection on to a landscape usually photographed during a moonless night. Many of the projectors must cover a span or area that is 1/2 mile away from the subject.
Jim Sanborn, Blue Mesa
I chose Jim Sanborn as my inspired artist for the project 1: Light and Shadow, and as I read more about this artist I found out that he enjoys incorporating messages into his art, something to get the viewers attention through lights and imagery. I wanted to use Sanborn as a inspiration towards my own project which would include a hexagon shaped lantern, with cut out shapes, similar to the Kryptos, so that the text or images could be cast from the lighting. However, that was not the case towards my end project.
Wim Delvoye: Carved Tyres, Double Helix Crucifix, and Nautilus Shell
Wim Delvoye was born in 1965 in Wervik, Belgium Over the past several years Delvoye has had many solo exhibits that incorporate his mixture of Gothic elements and contemporary concepts. Using computer technology to assist him with careful work in Gothic architecture that is needed for more sensitive pieces such as the Gothic Nautilus Shell (shown above) to create his impressive sculptures. Immersing himself in local cultures to bring in new ideas and elements to his craftsmanship.
Wim Delvoye's Double Helix Crucifix
My sculpture was inspired by my interest in biology, especially genetics and microbiology. I found similarity towards Wim Delvoyes work and my interest in what I wanted to incorporate into my Project 2: Nature Inspired project. Delvoye unique art style to create a metal sculpture out of a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) much like in a way that Watson and Crick created the structure of the DNA molecule back in 1953. However, in the end my sculpture once again did not take in the shape and form as I had predicted.
Maya Lin and her famous work on the heart-stopping monument towards Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Maya Lin was born October 5, 1959 At the age of 21, an undergraduate created the famous Vietnam Veterans Memorial that has over 58,000 fallen American soldiers names inscribed into the black stone. She is an American designer and artist who is known for her monuments, building designs, sculptures, landscape and environmental activism. Artwork such as "What is Missing", an interactive website used to draw attention to the biodiversity crisis, global warming, endangered bodies of water, animal extinction and endangerment. Her work focuses on relationship that people have with the environment, in a way her art allows people to have an experience with nature or their own moment of discovery.
Website to "What is Missing?" https://whatismissing.net/
Maya Lin also created a large scale landscape within Oregon and Washington that helps tells the story of the land that Chinook, Umatilla, and the Nez Perce tribe that lived along the Columbia River system, which is widely known for Lewis and Clark's expedition. Looking from an ecological vantage point to tell a story of the land, ecosystem that both the natives and Lewis and Clark's experienced so others can understand why its so valuable.