Video: Sea figure freeze: original sculptures from books
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-10 02:10
Getting acquainted with creativity Jodi Harvey-Brown, a talented artist from Pennsylvania, many will condemn his work for his ruthless attitude towards books. Although, who knows, maybe those wonderful sculptures, which he creates "based on" classical literature, on the contrary, will interest the younger generation and become an impulse to pick up a book.
Jody Harvey-Brown, also known by his pseudonym wetcanvas, - a great lover of literature. He creates three-dimensional sculptures ships, incredible monsters emerging from the depths of the sea, mermaids luring sailors … He draws inspiration from works that have become classics long ago. Among the favorites - "The Wind in the Willows", the fairy tale of the Scotsman Kenneth Graham, and the story-parable of Ernest Hemingway "The Old Man and the Sea". The nautical theme also attracts the sculptor in such novels as "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville and "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne. He did not ignore the story of Mark Twain about the adventures of Tom Sawyer.
The sculptor clearly demonstrates to the viewer how the events described by the author through words come to life in the reader's imagination and take visible forms. This transformation of the two-dimensional plane of the text into the three-dimensional dimension of the sculpture is almost magic, an exciting process that will leave few people indifferent.
Of course, Jody Harvey-Brown is not the only artist to create such sculptures. On the site Kulturologiya. RF we have already talked about 3D sculptures from books by Thomas Whitman, so we can say with confidence that this trend in contemporary art is gradually developing, gaining more and more fans.
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