American Youth, July 2010. 4'x4'. Chrome sphere, electrical cord, stone base.
This sculpture concept is a four foot metallic ball emblazoned with the American flag. The once bright and reflective surface has been scarred creating a dull hazy finish. The viewer would see a glimmer of their visage in the piece. The youthful ball has an electrical cord sprawled with little care around its base. The base the work sits on is a moat of sort that protects as well as isolates the individual ball. The cord and the moat represent a lack of functioning- the cord unplugged without a socket to active the automaton is useless; the moat keeps it from operating even if it were able to find a place to plug in. Disaffected, content with it's own complacency, machinating for someone else to arouse it the larval ball waits. Think of 'The bride stripped bare', but without the functioning machinery. This thing is dormant and it doesn't care.
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