Salvation Island
Sam B.
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Made from a single slab of air-dry clay pushed from underneath to form the landscape. Made of paraffin, beeswax, pastel, microns, Sumi ink, candy, and found bricks, this piece was made in response to a prompt to create a sculptural self-portrait. I sculpted the landscape of the self, my initials are marked with a point, and the rest of the landscape, which includes the topography, puritan town, morgue, stadium, cross, meander, roads, paths, and figure embedded in the landscape are both extensions of the self and points of relativity between parts of the sculpture and the point marked by my initials. Thinking of the self as being dependent on the external, community, and space one inhabits. The self is taking place outside of the body, and the connections we draw are as real as the location and concreteness of our body.
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Way of seeing.
