Exotic wood, leaves, ink
1" x 1/2"
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This pocket size sculpture titled, Pond, emerged from one of the purest moments in my childhood that I have carried around with me for over a decade. The memories that had stuck to the crevices in my brain and have nurtured me even now as a young adult was from when I was little, adventurous, and loving of nature. My sister and I had spent much of our time in the first ten years of life at our family pond. A dark green, murky, and quiet pond where the the only noises that you could hear were the frogs croaking, the birds chirping as they would fly back and forth, and the laughter from young girls naive to the world that we were brought into. Here, we would catch hundreds of salamanders and frogs, while our skin would grow to be covered by tiny bug bites and dirt that would build up for weeks on end under our nail beds. I was able to represent this memory through the use of green ink, wood, and real leaves. The largest of the three materials, the wood piece, I used because the pond was surrounded by nature, trees hung over the pond. The leaves that clung to the trees would fall and lie atop the surface of the water, bright colors would appear as patterns on the dark surface. Hence why I covered a portion of the wood with leaves. The leaves in my sculpture thicken and wrap around only one end, this creates an illusion of a bucket, which we would catch the creatures in. These materials work together to create a sense of what felt to be little and viewing nature as a place where magic lived and there was no rush to experience it.
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