NESCIO
This sculpture is a
collection of tightly rolled strips of magazine pages arranged in a radial
pattern to form a circle. My original
intent was to arrange the rolls at different lengths so that, instead of a circle,
they formed a heart.
But the laws of
physics, the bane of artistic freedom, intervened, leaving my envisioned
artwork in tatters. Even the title I had
devised, because it had pertained to the heart, was ruined.
So I was stuck with the
exasperating task of finding a new title.
After a few days of fruitless thinking, inspiration struck. “Nescio,” a
Latin word, translates to “I don’t know,” which seemed sufficient to describe
my predicament.
This sculpture stands
as proof that Latin class may actually be helpful in life.
2 comments:
I wish I had known that word for a college art class. I used Kanji for "nothing" with an insipid string art, which was meant to say that this craft was meaningless. the professor did not understand it, since he never showed up for the class and viewed the art without the students present.
Cute! =)
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