The Child Among Debris
17″ x 14″ x 7″
Steel, art board, paint
Today’s news documents in word and image the bombings in war torn countries. Neighborhoods are leveled and thousands of families displaced. Tonight’s news was about Gaza. It is said that the number of children murdered exceeds the number of combatants.
All week I found myself cutting and welding together dozens of small squares to form a web of sorts in the shape of a ball. Using a laser I cut out the image of a child with outstretched arms, one hand holding flowers, the other a bird. I placed that image within the rounded ball that I had made. Then crushed it. This sculpture, a child among debris, is result. I find it striking.
