True Romance
“True Romance”, 1983
Mixed media installation 10 x 20 x 6 feet This piece was destroyed during a studio move along with a number of others. Mid-way through graduate school, I had already begun work on elements of this installation. I applied for and was selected for an exhibition during the first season of the new offsite gallery dedicated to showing the work of graduate students, which gave me the opportunity and goal of realizing the piece in its entirety. This piece was my first “full-immersion” sculptural environment for viewers, in which the audience could enter the installation. I employed both forced and exploded perspective, in that the individual objects conform to a compressed space, while at the same time, the initial figure audiences encounter “man closing the door” is much larger than life at eight-feet tall. The piece represents a continuation of using personal narrative, in this case the dissolution of a relationship. The content of that narrative runs counter to the visual style, which has a fanciful and light-hearted cartoony feel. The idea was to entice and invite viewers into the realm of the story, and then have them realize that what they may have thought was a fun story is actually a story about loss and sadness. |
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