"Finding the Key"
Artist Statement:
This project was inspired by a poem I wrote around the same time for my poetry class. Having two creative outlets this semester gave me a new way to look at ideas and emotions and allowed me to express some through writing and some through sculpture. However, this memory was so special, happy, and vivid to me amongst my other blurry or sad memories that I chose to work with it in both mediums. The poem was intended to be a poem about memory and the writing process and using this specific memory as a metaphor for what writing feels like. The poem reads as follows:
After much deliberation on what approach to take with illustrating this concept and memory, I decided to mimic both the roof of a log cabin and the style of an A-frame house. I used Poplar wood because while Poplar trees grow in most of the Northern Hemisphere, they do grow specifically in North Carolina, which is where this memory comes from. The metal mesh mimics the idea of sifting through ideas, sifting through life's various possibilities as you would when you go gem mining in the mountains to find crystals through the dirt that you let run through the holes with the water. As for the crystals inside, I wanted them to be made of another natural material to mimic the inherent beauty of crystals, gems, and stones, but they are white to symbolize the unknown and the numerous possibilities there are in life. The viewer is able to look at the crystals and imagine them in any way they choose, while I know exactly which ones I modeled them after.
Materials: Poplar wood, metal mesh, white clay
Dimensions: 4" x 2.94" x 3"
Inspiration/research:
Marco Trelli
Martin Azúa
Julia Harrison
In Process Photos:
Final Project Photos:
Artist Statement:
This project was inspired by a poem I wrote around the same time for my poetry class. Having two creative outlets this semester gave me a new way to look at ideas and emotions and allowed me to express some through writing and some through sculpture. However, this memory was so special, happy, and vivid to me amongst my other blurry or sad memories that I chose to work with it in both mediums. The poem was intended to be a poem about memory and the writing process and using this specific memory as a metaphor for what writing feels like. The poem reads as follows:
Gem Mining
I see a rust orange mountain on my right
And a deserted country store on my left.
The road ahead is long but should lead to
Where I want to go, so I close my eyes
And whisper, “Please be the place where
I can see.”
Opening my eyes again, I notice
Cars packed full passing by and thank
The trees and sky for life. Another car
Speeds past my window, and
The image runs through my head
Like patient water flowing through
The wooden flume. I feel the ice-cold
Water numbing my hands, but I won’t stop
For anyone, not even for me
Because I’m almost there.
I am hell-bent on finding it – the key
To the box full of gems crowded inside.
“I know it’s just hiding,” I tell myself
As I slide the tray left to right, up and down.
“This is it!” I whisper as stones appear through
The dirt. Aquamarine, Garnet, Amethyst.
Another car rolls by, but I don’t examine it.
After much deliberation on what approach to take with illustrating this concept and memory, I decided to mimic both the roof of a log cabin and the style of an A-frame house. I used Poplar wood because while Poplar trees grow in most of the Northern Hemisphere, they do grow specifically in North Carolina, which is where this memory comes from. The metal mesh mimics the idea of sifting through ideas, sifting through life's various possibilities as you would when you go gem mining in the mountains to find crystals through the dirt that you let run through the holes with the water. As for the crystals inside, I wanted them to be made of another natural material to mimic the inherent beauty of crystals, gems, and stones, but they are white to symbolize the unknown and the numerous possibilities there are in life. The viewer is able to look at the crystals and imagine them in any way they choose, while I know exactly which ones I modeled them after.
Materials: Poplar wood, metal mesh, white clay
Dimensions: 4" x 2.94" x 3"
Inspiration/research:
Marco Trelli
Martin Azúa
Julia Harrison
In Process Photos:
Final Project Photos:
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