Final Project: Openings

This work is nothing I could have imagined creating before coming to Florence, but simply going through life and doing the exercises for class, the forms just naturally developed. I can see, looking back, how strongly I was influenced by the Bobali gardens, Anthropology Museum and La Speccola (even if I wasn’t aware of it at the time). I became interested in framing and seeing through one thing to another at the Bobali, an interest that did appear in my midterm work, but much less intentionally. And looking at the final form of my project, I can now see similarities with the objects I was attracted to at the Anthropology Museum and the forms of presentation that interested me at La Speccola. The experience of these places in Florence combined with more specific, personal events led me to think about dualities and how two separate things may combine.

The final form of my work this semester combines these interests. When the viewer approaches the wood form intimately, the two holes combine in their vision to become a single opening. The lower wood form with a silt carved down its center also relates to the pair of photographs. These images combine to form a personal significance for me, but can be interpreted in multiple ways.