After creating my first wearable sculpture with pinecone pieces, I knew I wanted to make another on a larger scale.
This piece started with a ring meant to be worn on top of the shoulders and the pinecone pieces were added one by one using a turn table, cascading downward attaching the pieces to each other from clear cast resin, to cast fiberglass resin to pine.
This piece walked the runway in Wearable Art II in Deland, Florida and was later disassembled for my move across the country to Utah.
It came alive again in a more “traditional” art shape, AKA a rectangle meant to be hung on the wall. I started calling it a sculptural painting as it came together this time in groupings of pieces instead of being assembled piece by piece. Moving the groupings from a circular shape to a flat base created a different layered texture.
In 2019, I entered the Pinecone Sculptural Painting into the Urban Arts Gallery Connect Competition Finals in Salt Lake City, where local artists present their work to be voted on by both the public and the artists. It was awarded the Grand Prize grant for Artists’ choice! It was an honor to share what my work means to me: how the act of creating and transforming these pieces is a way for me to process the world around me and my inner thoughts, and how abstract art has been a great way to connect with others, very fitting for the Connect contest. I love how the abstract can bring out so many different opinions and can spark conversation. The Pinecone painting has had a long journey up until now and I can’t wait to see where it goes next!
