This is the latest sculpture in which I manipulate flat material into simple shapes, paint them, and attach them together. In this piece, Curse the Morning Sun, I like that it retains its flat beginnings even as it twirls and wrinkles in space, as if 4 decorative paintings weren’t good enough, so they got together and started a band, making a stronger statement than any of the individual units could have on their own. At least this is how I think about them in the studio.
When I first read “wrinkles in space” I read it as winkles, which made me think of twinkles, and I was confused.
The juxtaposition between the bright colors and the message also confuses me.
All in all, I would say that makes it a successful “art”.
I love it!
Ben, did you go to the trouble of reading that? Bravo.
I like how some of the colors from each unit carry over into the next unit; you could call it a cyclical palette. Instead of shifting from dark to light colors I went for shifting from cool to warm colors; both of these approaches suggest the hopscotch from night to day and so on, which is part of the poem, and for me, the bright colors are unnatural and imaginary, the kind of colors that can characterize the inner life of someone who lives for the night.
All in all, I appreciate your “feedback.” :)