Kids united
metal on brick stand
My metal sculpture United Kids 34 is originating from the idea of children's need for help. Children's rights of education, health, safety, protection and equality is an issue for me that I am sensitive about and keen on.
My sculpture simply symbolizes the way I want to see them, strong and united.
Children have tended to be represented in art either as miniature versions of adults or icons of innocence, but very few could capture the transient nature of childhood and all the vulnerabilities inherent in it.
In my sculpture, I try highlight the fragility of children as much as the main idea which is familes and the society should empower them...
In terms of material, I picked a ready made element which are baby shape cookie cutters because they have a popular image in the collective conscious evoking children, happiness, family,warmth. However, it needed to be reshaped. So I took 27 of cutters to the matel shop and welded the 3 sizes of cutters together. I wanted to locate it on a stand rather than hanging it as a representation of self-confidence and keeping feet on the ground. The stand should have been as tough as metal and the idea took me to London brick. It was the toughest part to dig the brick to locate the steel poles, but is not it art itself to make the impossible possible? So, we did it!
Then, I painted the brick with my technique and multiple colours so that it would look integrated with my paintings.
The title comes as a reference to the United Nations which I do not think that it is giving enough care to children issues.
A MODEST PROPOSAL : LET's EAT CHILDREN
Kids United 3*
metal,wood stand
My second piece of the same series is "United Kids 3" which symbolizes the nuclear family of our age. Family is still an important entity of the modern society and it is essential for a kid to have that secure atmosphere to raise up as a healthy individual. Irvin Yalom says, family offers a person residential identity, social status, right to property affiliation with kinship and emotional support.
Marisol Escabar is one artist who portraits families in her sculptures.
I am inspired by Louise Bourgeois, the French artist who owned large-scale sculpture and installation art along with being a prolific painter and printmaker. During her long artistic career, she explored a variety of themes over including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the subconscious.In her sculpture of a woman breast feeding her baby she is praising motherhood and how important a mother figure raising a child.
In the next one, Bourgeois points out the vulnerability of kids.
Although we use different techniques and come from different background, it is evident that we intend to make a domestic issue public, even universal.
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Family for Marisol was a place of ultimate security.Although her families were serious looking and dull, she dreamt of herself in joy and happiness. Once she said she decided to take up sculpting because,“It started as a kind of rebellion...Everything was so serious. I was very sad myself and the people I met were so depressing. I started doing something funny so that I would become happier and it worked.”
**numbers in the title of my sculptures addresses to the number of metal cutters I used.
HOW MUCH DO YOU WEIGH?
How much do you weigh?
clay,plastic,rope
This clay baby is inspired by the photo of little Yemeni girl who was weighed in a very primitive way just a few days ago she passed away. I found the situation so sad and inhumane. And I wanted to make a sculpture out of it.
Also, I was influenced by Anthony Gormley's style of shaping the clay, metal and wood.
'In the context of the Foundling Museum exhibition, this tiny body describes the tragedy of separation that besets the abandoned child. This precious, unique life is deserted: a position more associated with death.
The work has become known as the Iron Baby and in its darkness and density suggests a small bomb. The material is iron (concentrated earth), the same as the core of our planet. Here, this tiny bit of matter in human form attempts to make us aware of our precarious position in relation to our planetary future. "It is the gesture of a body closed in on itself, needy of comfort, shelter, sustenance, and peace," says Gormley about his work. The reflection of human psychology through different mediums and art enriches the knowledge, ability and imagination of the artist. So this clay baby making process was very helpful to better understand Amal and children in Yemen and their parents.