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selective memory: worry and guilt by Chris Wubbena acid etched steel 8.5' x 9' x 3' |
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Location:
Stadium Road/Emmett Street
Value: $15,000 |
Artist
Statement The concepts and forms that make up my artwork generate from an interest in melding physical and cultural history into compositions that exhume, analyze, and challenge issues from yesterday and today. Through an assortment of media I create artwork that compiles and preserves information into layered, stacked, and eroded forms. The finished product most often references the link between geology, history, and everyday life, such as social stratification, political fissures, or historical sedimentation and erosion. The sculpture, titled selective memory, is an autobiographical mining of the past, present, and future, as memory fades and earth erodes. In the end, the artwork
I create is an amalgamation of various landmarks and artifacts.
A landmark is more than a simple object or place; it is a reminder
of an emotion, experience, or discovery. An artifact is a clue into
secrets, secrets that have resisted the effects of time, to tell
old underlying stories. The landmarks and artifacts presented in
my work, through material, form, and content, investigate our shared
contemporary existence as it sits teetering atop a world of accumulated
beliefs, traditions, and misconceptions.
Chris Wubbena |
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