I decided to make a fountain for display at the local biennial art fair. They needed a signature piece to attract attention, and I was amused by the prospect.
The festival is called “Art Soup,”I think because the founder had latin roots. Soup in Italian and Spanish is a way to refer to the life, that incredible intermingled experience we all contribute to and share.
A rendering of a sculpture modelled in Rhino.
It is a hero. Hero is what the ad/film industry calls oversize props. There is nothing new about them really, they have been around for a long time. Sometimes just bringing focus to an object can point up some inherent qualities and turn it to art, others like Oldenburg’s series of clothes pins seem more an allegory of other things, like a fond embrace.
The image of the ladle as fountain amused me because the handle itself is like one huge jet of matter frozen in an instant like a high speed photo. a joyous effusion.