I promised to make sense of the last post.
Here Goes... I've watched too many episodes of CSI.
This year at Bouquets to art, I was assigned a piece of conceptual art by Bruce Nauman. Two neon faces with flashing hands. each poking the others eye out.
The piece is titled Double Poke in the Eye II.
I have to admit I have never paid too much attention to this piece on my visits to the deYoung. In previous years, other designers have chosen to focus on the colorful neon aspects of this sculpture.
When I actually studied Nauman's work, I was struck by it's dark and violent nature. I used two manequin heads, painted white and gouged an eye out on each (that was FUN).
Red Hanging Amaranthus and Antherium are used to simulate blood oozing from the eye sockets. Rannucula petals, Vanda Orchid blooms and Hypericum berries were glued to the forms suggesting blood splatters. Hypericum berries peared on blades of Steel Grass mimic blood droplets in motion.
Yeah I know, I need therapy.
This piece ellicited many of the responses I expected at the opening night cocktail party, ranging from humor to horror.
Just like life.
Here Goes... I've watched too many episodes of CSI.
This year at Bouquets to art, I was assigned a piece of conceptual art by Bruce Nauman. Two neon faces with flashing hands. each poking the others eye out.
The piece is titled Double Poke in the Eye II.
I have to admit I have never paid too much attention to this piece on my visits to the deYoung. In previous years, other designers have chosen to focus on the colorful neon aspects of this sculpture.
When I actually studied Nauman's work, I was struck by it's dark and violent nature. I used two manequin heads, painted white and gouged an eye out on each (that was FUN).
Red Hanging Amaranthus and Antherium are used to simulate blood oozing from the eye sockets. Rannucula petals, Vanda Orchid blooms and Hypericum berries were glued to the forms suggesting blood splatters. Hypericum berries peared on blades of Steel Grass mimic blood droplets in motion.
Yeah I know, I need therapy.
This piece ellicited many of the responses I expected at the opening night cocktail party, ranging from humor to horror.
Just like life.
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