Forceful Impression

Forceful Impression does not have an internal frame, it is made from repurposed garage door brackets and parts.  Using things considered to be trash by the general public in a fine art setting speaks volumes to me.  The idea behind using these materials stems from the saying, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”  These brackets and parts would have been tossed aside as scrap and then possibly melted down to create something new altogether forgetting about their past lives as part of a garage door.  I have chosen to keep them in their original forms and utilize them exactly as they are.  Taking brackets and turning them into a figure reminded me of Geppetto and Pinocchio therefore, I chose to make this figure into a marionette puppet.  Puppets are used in the same way dance and gymnastics are, as a form of entertainment, so to continue with the idea of athleticism when it comes to performance, I have positioned this figure in an arabesque, which is like doing the splits with one foot on the ground and one in the air.  To create the figure, I used a MIG welder to construct the cross brace and attach the brackets. Then I used cables from the garage doors to hang and create the form presented.  The figure, cords, and cross-brace are all hung from U-bolts that are attached to laminated three-quarter inch by two-inch pieces of pine that were bolted into the cinderblock ceiling with the figure barely an eighth of an inch off the ground.