While creating this piece i did a lot of research and had a lot of prior knowledge on my favorite artist Maya Lin. She works with many materials in her sculptures and most being natural materials. looking at her many pieces using wood and stacking it, and the different treatments she uses to create clean unity with materials that are all shaped very differently. researching her work was the reason i came to the decision to stain all my wood one color so the piece would have unity and the material didn't distract from the meaning of the piece.
http://www.mayalin.com/
Another artist i researched was Reuben Margolin. He's a kinetic sculptor that works with wood. His pieces flow and move and do things people don't expect a very stiff material like wood would do. I chose to have my piece hung with fishing wire and each branch to be hung with fishing wire so my piece would move. if the piece was completely still i don't think it would give the feel of a wave the way it does now. the small movement it makes as someone brushes past it gives it that bit of realism that i really like. with the movement it makes the wave seem like its part of a slow current and makes it feel more alive.
http://www.vimeo.com/5634600
Another artist i researched was Reuben Margolin. He's a kinetic sculptor that works with wood. His pieces flow and move and do things people don't expect a very stiff material like wood would do. I chose to have my piece hung with fishing wire and each branch to be hung with fishing wire so my piece would move. if the piece was completely still i don't think it would give the feel of a wave the way it does now. the small movement it makes as someone brushes past it gives it that bit of realism that i really like. with the movement it makes the wave seem like its part of a slow current and makes it feel more alive.
http://www.vimeo.com/5634600
Well done.
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