Video: Collapse - card sculpture in New Zealand
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Each of us, at least once in his life, has built a house out of playing cards. But the artist Fletcher Vaughan (Fletcher Vaughan) has gone as far in this matter as possible. He created sculpture Collapseinstalled on the coast in New Zealand. This sculpture was made of playing cards, but not from the usual, but from giant.
People love it when ordinary things are done in sizes much larger than the original ones. Examples include the two-meter one-cent coin by Wander Martich, hyper-realistic sculptures by Rómulo Celdrán, giant insects by Steve Gschmeissner and even a huge purple Rocking Hot Dog. The Collapse sculpture by Fletcher Vaughan is also made in this style of exaggeration.
The sculpture called Collapse (the word "collapse" is translated from English as "collapse") is about four meters high and looks like a five-level house built of playing cards. True, these cards are not ordinary, but gigantic, each of which is almost a meter in height. They are made, of course, not from paper or cardboard, but from aluminum.
This sculpture stands on a hill on the shores of Waiheke Bay near Auckland, open to all winds and elements. And, despite the strong metal parts welded together, it seems to anyone looking at it, that the slightest breath of wind, and it will collapse. Hence the name Collapse, that is, Collapse.
This is the main message that Fletcher Vaughan put into his sculpture. He wanted to show all the fragility that seemingly immutable things are subject to and, on the contrary, the strength and reliability that seemingly temporary, light and airy constructions have.
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