Apongotto

 

Apongotto

foam board, plaster, wooden dowels, patterned paper, mod-podge, acrylic paint

12.5", 13.5", 12.1"

Inspiration: 

                    I was inspired by Pablo Picasso's collage work and wanted to take his 2D image and make it 3D with my own spin to it. I grew up looking at Picasso's work and was inspired at a young age. My mom brought back a Picasso book from the MET when her and my dad visited New York city one year and when she brought it back, all I wanted to do was observe his work even more closely. I find I have a lot of his inspiration driving my works, but especially in Apongotto. 

Artist Statement: 

                    Apongotto. There's no rhyme or reason to the name, but in my creative process, this is what I came up with. I'm constantly working on my methods and how I think to come up with these ideas for these works of art, but I can never really identify what the method is. We all have different times where we accumulate ideas and need advice to further them, but those times of artistic ideas, when they start flowing, you must keep them going. I started out with writing down some key words and phrases for the piece and then started creating what the piece would look like from that.

                    For Apongotto, I wanted it to look like earth was turned upside down, on its head. As I'm learning in my Art and Environment class, there is plenty to know about how humans have impacted earth and artists use their work to bring attention to this so we can have knowledge about things such as, climate change, and it will get viewers to stop and think for a moment that, maybe I should be the one to put earth back together. So here, we have the aftermath of what many generations before us have done to earth and it still is ever growing in its disastrous stages. I used sandpaper to create nitty gritty textures in the wood colored pieces to show how imperfect earth is, but so are we.

                    The beauty of this piece is that the structure may be a little chaotic, as life and humans tend to be, but where the beauty comes in, is where the patterns and solid color choices are. Although earth may be slowly destroyed by all who inhabits, but it still wants to live too. So, it continues to grow and produce beautiful wildlife, crops, and continues to go through day and night, season after season, forever and ever. Like in Apongotto, through the crazy there still is forms with different patterns that resemble differences. The blues resembles the sky's and waterways, the green resembles the greenery, and the yellow is the bright sun and moons that give the days and nights. 

                    Needless to say, Apongotto is to see earth at a glance in a light that shows what is happening to it. Although these changes are being made rapidly, it still turns and moves in the direction it was meant to go in, as you can see this is a full turn 360 degrees sculpture. It still shows its beauty through the crazy of it all.