This piece may look like a hot mess of blue and plastic at first, but upon closer inspection you might notice the layers of color and plastic and individual pieces of the artwork. Looking even closer, you realize those pieces of different color underneath the painted plastic "ocean waves" are recyclable materials, bright and spread out onto a darker blue "canvas". The ocean waves aren't a solid color, allowing the viewer to experience this revelation on their own.
The Most apparent element of design used is texture, as the texture of the waves is important in understanding the meaning behind the piece. The artist I used as inspiration was Bernard Pras who mainly creates portraits and recreates popular images using found objects. His recreation of The Great Wave at Kanagawa is specifically the piece that inspired me. This sculpture is a relief sculpture. At first by idea was to take multiple plastic bags and glue them to a board to create ocean waves in that sense. But as I was looking at materials I realized that was to simple and I decided on doing a layering of items I found. This piece represents all the plastic and trash that pollutes our oceans, to the point where plastic is our ocean, and our ocean is plastic. On the surface it may seem like nothing much, but hiding underneath that are colorful and bright hazardous plastics waiting to be eaten by innocent sea creatures. Although this piece isn't exactly what I intended it to be, I am pleased with the results. The sparring use of blue paint makes it look somewhat minimalistic, but the painted bottles and straws fill in the gaps. I like that is can be rotated at any angle and still hold the same meaning. It was not very difficult to make, it did test my creative abilities, but overall I am happy with this sculpture. |
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