Gilgamesh

These two pieces at once impressed me with their huge scale and the quality of their construction. The statue of Gilgamesh is seemingly constructed of scrap metal in strange shapes that you wouldn't normally think of to constitute the human body. The mixture of graphic designs created on in the manifestation of the body add greatly to the expressiveness of the work as a whole.

The Orc statue is equally impressive in the crazy level of detail that simply brings it to life in all its hulking brutality. The fact that is even standing seems to me a miracle.

Orc

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Weightless

Similar to the falling piece, this piece is surprisingly full of motion and vitality.
The level of detail is astounding and even without the title "Weightless" I was immediately struck with such a feeling from the piece itself.

Cardboard Farie

This piece immediately struck me as a great exercise in both realism and testing the limits of the medium. The entire farie is constructed from cardboard. It's really lifelike and it's really amazing to me that the sculptor managed to construct the hair in this fashion without destroying other hair strands.

These pieces stand out as some of the strongest installation-style sculptures I have seen. I think that inclusion of the human form in places it generally shouldn't be inherently adds a certain mood to the piece.

I think it would be really interesting to see how people react to seeing these included in a normal sidewalk or other public place. What would happen in their minds in the split second they hesitate as they first see one of these?

"falling"

This sculpture does a great job of capturing the action of falling. From my experience, capturing motion in sculpture has been pretty difficult. One of the other things this piece does well is to remain structurally stable even though it is hanging over empty space. Constructing the piece out of metal probably helps.

"Dancer"

I find this piece inspirational. Though I would never guess that it is supposed to be a dancer without the title "Dancer," I think this aspect of the sculpture is interesting. Relying on the title allows for both free association before the viewer sees it, and also serves to specify exactly what the sculptor wants to convey.