Artist Statement – “Surrender”
Creating this piece, I initially thought that making a design with the wire would be fun. I picked assorted sizes of beads to try to differentiate the two sides as I find symmetry less appealing to the eye. Like myself, I like to create things that are a little more edgy. I started out with a bigger block of wood but then switched to a smaller block as I wanted my piece to have a spinning movement and found it was difficult to achieve with such a wide block. I found that planning for this piece made things more frustrating. I was not getting the movement I wanted, so I decided to just take an abstract approach and just move the wire around, beads on each side, to find a balance point that I found soothing.
I love how much calm the movement of the piece brings. I feel like I channeled my current mood of stress and anxiety into the wire to help create feelings of zen and acceptance. I titled my piece as “Surrender” as that is what I needed to do to create it. Completely surrender to the process, surrender to my feelings, and surrender to this time to be creative.
If I were to do again, I would love to experiment with different weights of wire and other pieces of materials for countering the weight.