Free Standing Sculpture 

Paul Ramirez Jonas

 

• Elements and Principles - Line, scale, shape, repetition
• They have a warm feel to them reminding me of a sail something seen at the beach it is quite geometric looking
• Artist Statement - Jonas talks about being inspired by intimate moments.

Fernandez Arman

• Elements and Principles - asymmetry, shape, space, negative space, color, scale
• This work reminds me of Picasso's cubist guitars. His sculpture is completely broken up like cubist work. He uses snap lines to show the way everything has been sliced apart. 
• Artist statement - Influenced by the DaDa movement

Gudjon Ketilsson

• Elements and Principles - Organic shape, scale, line 
• They are very ceramic looking, very natural looking as if they are some kind of succulent or shell of something.Very irregular shapes
• Artist Statement - Ketlisson's work is inspired by using the whole of the human body to create art. 

Containing Gold -

This free stranding piece has important elements of design being shape, line and negative space. Its focus involves the circular unifying shape, 5 of which have very geometric design elements whereas the circular fabric contains chaos but also structure. I wanted to use only gold and white in this because the balance of the two tones worked together by being simple with the white but a subtle glow with the gold. These circular rings are also about the action of creating them the rhythmic movement of stretching the gold thread over the clean white rings. All three pieces are inspired by elements of embroidery and the action of sewing and binding things together with thread, they also have the common theme of the circle. Inspired also by the Native American legend of the Dream catcher and spinning a geometric spiders web. Circle symbols are important in some Native American cultures being a symbol for equality where no person is more prominent than another. “The circle has no break and holds that which cannot be broken.” This stood out to me while doing research for each sculpture and became a common theme for my work.