Fragile art, fragile environment
http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/fragile-art-fragile-environment-20100818-12f5t.html
Description:
Crystal Stubbs, an artist who has 37 hand-sculpted glass pieces on show in her Human Nature exhibition, hopes her artworks can help people protect our environment.
Comment:
When I first open this page, I know I will fall in love with this story, with its eye-catching headline, photos and opening paragraphs. Fragile art, fragile environment, that’s true. How can it be not fragile when the artwork is making in glass? How can it be not fragile when we have done enough bad things to the environment? When you are seeing an artwork that a big hand is holding an egg, what will you think of it at that time? New life? Yes. Many people will think that too. But Stubbs said I was using that egg shape to represent fragility.
They are two great photos and they explain everything, powerful and simple as well. I did like the two opening paragraphs which the author describes the chess board. It seems that we are watching a real chess game. However, it is not a game with real chess pieces but with symbols: human king and queen, castles, bishops, knights, rats, egg pawns. The author wrote that The piece is Crystal Stubbs’s striking illustration of the losing game our native species are playing against feral pests and mankind in an exhibition that shows both her delight and despair about the environment.
With the description of this outstanding glass piece, it follows the main theme of Stubbs’s artworks and her goal. The author skillfully uses a comparison with election environmental issues such as climate change that Stubbs’s work is more personal than political. I think it indicates that what she does is more practical, direct and right-away.
I understand that. Our planet is too fragile to bear any more damages. Climate change, pollutions, desert, flood, hazard, diversity…… they are far more serious than before. We all know that, and we are discussing, listening to others and fixing it. I’d like to think I design pieces that are just interesting to look at and people can read their own things into them. And she did make it: interesting and make people start thinking.
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