The final project for my introduction to sculpture class was to create a self-portrait mobile. I decided that in order to represent myself, the mobile should not be the work of art, but the artist. I wanted to make a mobile that would place paint on a canvas with a locomotion of its own that I could not quite control.
To complete this task, I made five casts of my own hand and filled each with paint water. The colors of the paint correspond to the emotions of the individual hand gestures. The hands are attached to a bicycle tire which is suspended from the ceiling above a circular canvas.
When the mobile is activated, the hands drip paint onto the canvas below. The water leaving the hands at different rates causes the mobile to spin.
The canvas contains an image representing a range of emotions from calm to chaotic. The colors shift and flow together on the surface of the canvas. Eventually the paint runs out and the work of the mobile is finished. A tie-dye-style canvas is the end result, but the process of the mobile is just as important.
I am an artist studying music, art, and poetry at UNC Chapel Hill. I work in a small museum on campus and I hope to work as a preparator in the future.
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