Midterm

 

 

The Artist Sarah Sze is 45 years old and she lives in New York. Sze uses ordinary objects to create sculptures. She studied architecture and painting, so for her it is easy to make up something in her mind and then make it tangible. She said that sometimes “what you can do in a drawing you cannot do in a print and what you can do in a building you cannot do in a drawing”.  That is a good point because in a print we cannot touch or see something the way that the artist is trying to transmit because people would interpret it in another way.  For example, the sculpture that she build in the video that I just saw is called “Model for a habitat,” the place where she exhibited this artwork was in a high line in Manhattan it was there for a year. She did this 3D sculpture because she wanted to make a location where people could observe the birds the insects and all those details that were around this place. The artist seems to be very energetic and likes the idea of nature and wild life that was a reason that she created that artwork in that place. The purpose of her sculpture was for people who were walking around this place took a minute or two to stop by and appreciate this work and saw all the things that were around it. For example, the nature, the birds, the insects, the flowers the grass, etc. She put that sculpture where people have to walk though it the walking space itself become the negative space in the sculpture. The process of making the work was pretty long because first she had to do the entire sculpture in a model. She used wood, strings, color tapes and cardboards as a guide so in that way she was able to figure out one point prospective. After doing that she was able to do it with metal in the place that she wanted. I think that she did a wonderful work because people who walked around that place, seemed to be interested and curious about that work. For me this was a very interesting video because this is my first time that I see how artists make their artwork.  It is interesting and easy to understand when you see what they are pretending to do with the art that they create. Sze said “I’m interested to take a public piece and have it feel intimate. When you get there, you feel slightly embraced by the piece itself—slightly nested—which plays on the idea of the habitat." According with the video that I saw she did a good job because she reached her goal the people who took the time to appreciate her work felt that way.