BFA: "The Duality"

The identity of self, personified in gathered/recycled materials to create unique characteristics using motors, movement, and physical viewer interaction in each piece. Using recycled materials, the piece becomes a collection of the past, taught to be itself with the versions of others that were used to build it. Like the child being born into the world, it becomes a collection or a recycled version of the "others". The goal with my work is to allow the viewer to build their perspective of the pieces in the round during their interactions to build a temporary relationship with said pieces. Each piece is different in shape, size, and movement but all embody similarity in their ability to move with electricity/motors and express themselves differently using the viewers perspective and the relationship with the viewer. Similar to the human interaction, these pieces become themselves as they move in the world. Personas and archetypes of the human and their experience in this world.  -Christian Ard

"The Duality"

Recycled Material, Metal bearings, Wood, Wires, Microwave Motor

The duality of the piece embodies the duality of life visualized. The metal bearings rotate around in a circle, while one rises the other falls in their journey and so on around and around. The viewer sees the bearings rotating while trading the ups and the downs of the rotation with the other bearing. Being as they are polished metal; the viewer is reflected to themselves within the bearings while viewing the piece in the round allowing the viewer to see themselves and the journey of the duality of their own passings of time. The spinning of the wheel only ends when the piece is unplugged. Allowing the viewer to ponder the eternal duality of life for it to be ended when their plug has become unplugged, death.