F O U N D

I was at Ikea toward the end of December and I found this one-legged figure sculpture. These are popular for artists who want a model to work from in order to draw/paint/sculpt a body in realistic contortions and proportions. I also found this red teddy bear, which for purposes of this post, is mostly a backdrop for Gimpy.

I've long had an affinity for things that are imperfect. For me, perfection is unattractive and uninteresting. People who look like supermodels tend to not only turn me off, but completely start to disappear from my view. I don't really know why.

I've thought for a long time that humanity thrives on conflict. In all of literature, for example, and with few exceptions, what makes a story interesting is the conflict. I think only in music do we tend to gravitate toward harmony. But of course this is not always true either. There are plenty of examples of dissonance in music. But generally speaking the dissonance is brief, with most of the music being melodic, withing key, and harmonious.


Anyway, there was Gimpy. And he was marked down to a mere 50 cents. How sad. So I knew he must be mine. And then he was. And so was Redbear (I ended up giving Redbear to one of my nieces for Christmas).

Brian posted at 11:46 AM.

I really like how this vaguely looks adversarial. Like there's a fight in progress. A battle of physical will. It's very subtly there, but it's definitely what I see. The way the figure on the right seems to be curling forward and the one on the left seems to be recoiling.

This other pic shows it a little more. Especially the dramatic shadow.

I've no idea where I found this piece, though it was relatively recently. Within the past month or so. I really like to place these objects in some sort of context, since I usually complete take them out of context in my art. It's just something that I'll have to work on, I guess.

Now it's winter however, and a very bad time for found objects, especially those found outside. It will be slim pickings for a while.

Brian posted at 7:23 PM.