Self-Portrait I Sculpture
Free-Standing Life Size Sculptural Artwork
Designed & fabricated In-House
Materials: Ceramic, Fabric, Wood, Steel, 3D-Printed Resin, Rope
Dimensions: Approx 6 Feet Tall, 2ft Wide
In this work various different materials, shapes, colors, and textures come together to create a roughly human-sized complex and detailed physical structure mirroring our own expansive self- perceptions of ourselves. This sculpture is meant to be explored fully by walking around it and viewing it from all sides and angles.
Different semi-translucent materials are used as what I call “Objects of Obfuscation”, whose purpose is to obfuscate, or obscure the view to a true inner object or being. In the case of this sculpture the inner ceramic object is representational of the true “inner-being”, while the Objects of Obfuscation are representative of both the walls and layers we metaphorically create around ourselves, knowingly or unknowingly, to shy away from the pure gaze of our outside world; and also the layers of subjective altered-perceptions those in our external world place upon us, again, knowingly or unknowingly.