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Location: Firth St. at Cherry Avenue
Value: $9,000 |
Artist
Statement The use of industrial materials to explore natural forms creates an energy similar to the interactions at the fertile edge between society and nature. By enlarging a small form, emphasis is put on its significance and attention is drawn to its design. The spiraling, repeated scale forms in Strobus are also suggestive of our society where individuals are joined in a trajectory along a timeline of history. Strobus is based on the geometry of the White Pine, the most economically significant of the pines. The seed forms I use in some of my work suggest a potential for exponential grow. Scale exaggeration, a common phenomenon in contemporary art using human artifacts (a table, a typewriter, eraser, etc.), is shifted in my work to focus attention on small, usually ignored natural forms, changing the message-are we really bigger than they are? Do we actually know what we think we know about our place in the world? Joyce Audy Zarins 978-346-8994
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