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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

Weeping Wuntzel Tree, conceptualism, sculpture

College

Fine Arts and Communications

Department

Art

Abstract

For this show, my work started out being a look at life, and the places we struggle to attain to, but I quickly found out that my work is more about beauty than anything. I feel that the project was very successful indeed because not only was I able to create a large body of 32 pieces for the show, but I learned some things about my work and myself that I didn’t realize before. I realized that my work, rather than being successfully narrative at this point, lends itself to more formal aspects. While I was trying to build conceptualism into my work, my professors kept telling me that I was not being altogether true to myself. I really needed to look at and analyze my intentions. After much deliberation, I decided that rather than trying to make this show tell a specific story, I would stick to formal elements of art and just work on juxtaposing beautiful shapes to create lyrical works of art that most people could relate to. I feel that through some of the objects I use to adorn my work such as keys, jewels, stars, maggots, and the Weeping Wuntzel Tree, I have given the viewer some food for thought about the piece without force feeding the point to them. I am not trying to define beauty to the viewer, rather I have tried to bring various elements together in a way that most people would believe are beautiful whether they understand the style of art or not.

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