Birch wood
50 x 30 x 30 cm.
Apr. 2012
This is the fifth piece of a project which I developed during the year I stayed in Sweden as an erasmus. The project theme was identity: what makes a person different? what makes each person special? what is an identity made of? why do we have the need to be so unique, yet so integrated in a group? what do we use to define our identity? this are some of the questions that define the proyect.
Groups also have identities, and have a huge rol in our society nowadays. We are social beings, we are small pieces of society, we need it to survive, to have all our needs covered, to be part of it we work, we have friends, we consume...and we make it work. A single person usually wont go too far, even behind the greatest personalities in history there is a lot of people working for them...That explains the shape of this sculpture, all the pieces together can rise higher, they are stronger and can achieve things that a single piece couldn't...a single piece would never be able to be a single spike
On the other hand, the spikes themselves have their own identity, as groups do...from bussiness, companies, political parties, even countries.When we think about them, they have their own atributes and do what we alone can't.
The piece is composed of lots of small wooden pieces, as a puzzle. I gave each spike it's shape, and then when it was polished, cut it in small pieces and glue it again. When all the spikes were ready, I glued them together and repeated the process with the lower zone.
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