Completed: December 2016
Aluminum, unfired stoneware clay, acrylic, wire.
3' x 3' x 1.5-2' / section 3' x 3' x 12' total
0.6 lbs / section 8 lbs total
PRESS
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
‘Neo-origami’ sculpture by Lawrence Beall ’16 part of flourishing CMC art scene
The most recent addition to CMC’s art and creativity initiative is a piece called Digital Odyssey, which aspires to retell the 12-year journey of Odysseus (the titular Greek hero in Homer’s epic poem Odyssey) in a modern framework. The sculpture was on display at Roberts Pavilion, Dec. 6-16, and is...
EXHIBITIONS
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December 2016: Roberts Pavilion, Claremont McKenna College
The Piece, The Story
Digital Odyssey retells the 12 year journey of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey in a modern framework.
It is both archaeological artifact and prophecy.
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At this moment, the digital world seeps into physical space around us...
...how does this change the ways we wander through and interact with space?
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Digital Odyssey is an Ancient Greek column
made from aluminum wire mesh
folded using 'Neo-Origami'
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Unfired, raw stoneware clay was applied to the "pixels" of the column, depicting stylized skeletal forms.
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The skeletal forms ironically "unearth" (through a medium that is essentially dirt) the ways that a digital world changes our experiences into 1's and 0's.
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The skeletal forms are both archealogical and prophetic...
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...reconnecting the experiences of a distant past...
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...and foreboding a digital future.