Oct 20 2008
Critique: Untitled by Laura Schumacher
This time around I, your faithful blogger, have decided to (with all bias considered) to critique my good SUNY New Paltz friend Laura Schumacher’s piece below.
Untitled 2006
Media: Mixed Media, Wire, drawing materials, wood-based materials
Gallery: http://newmaltz.deviantart.com/
The work evokes a sense of despair and struggle that I can only call a temporary imprisonment or purgatory - a weary, contemplative state. The color choices themselves suggest a weatheredness as if from ancient scroll of papyrus that tells an old fable. The texture of the etching is muscular and forceful against a subdued and sullen mood entrapped in a tangling of copper wire. It seems a very well-place juxtaposition.
One sees a silhouette of a face but nothing more in a fetal lock ready to break free. The figure, apparently male is twisted in a very baroque-like style indicative of motion within a still fame.
Laura is currently in the process of completing both a B.A. in Art Education and a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts.
I see an imprisonment as well. Struggling and not being seen as there is no face. Forlorn and dying a slow death.
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I am really moved by this piece. I want to reach out and touch this figure.