kelsey lacroix Drifted • installation • mixed media “My influence, for the formal and sculptural qualities of my work, is Andy Goldsworthy, a British sculptor who only created art from nature’s natural resources that surrounded him in his landscape”
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latest work is the result of an exploratory process, in which I created sculpture and drawings, on the theme of personal legends and life journeys. The dome sculptures are made out of driftwood I collected from White Rock Beach where I go to contemplate and reflect on my thoughts and self. I chose to work with driftwood because it is what I believe to be the perfect symbol as a metaphor representing life journeys. Each piece of driftwood is not only beautiful but is aesthetically individualized. Driftwood is like a person: each distinct feature shows the personal journey it has travelled. It reveals that it is from an island or another land across a body of water, is from a particular tree in possibly another climate and has fallen off a boat or somewhere else in the world to drift and land on the shore. I am interested in the theme of journeys because I question the journey that people travel in their life span of less than 100 years and am lost to where I may go in mine.
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