Artprize 2012

Every year I am AMAZED at Artprize.  Creative people.  Unconventional materials.  Lovely eye candy.  Who would think to use bottle caps for a self-portrait???  Or Jelly Belly's?  How about taking a solid piece of black walnut and creating a seal only by burning the wood !!!!!

And then we have the extraordinary talented Mr. Chris LaPorte.  

Astounding.

The room that City Band was in was definitely my favorite and actually took my breath away.  When you walk in, on the right, you see City Band.  In the middle of the room there is a collage of sorts on the floor of little photo frames that looks like nothing as you're walking around it.  Until you get to the front of it and see that all the little photos form one giant portrait:

From the first moment you step into this particular room, though, you see a smattering of colored papers on the left hand side of the room.  I will confess to you now, that when I initially walked in and glanced to the left, I though, "Wow, a collage of colored paper.....art???"  However....the mystery continued as we meanered throughout the room.   I kept looking at the colored pieces of paper and also noticed a light slowly going on....and going off.  It wasn't until Ryan pointed out to me that I understood that the papers were actually shaped so that the shadows were profiles of people's faces!!!  

99 distinguishable profiles of real people - you could even glance closely and see eyebrow hairs and extremely tiny whiskers.  I loved this - so creative and mind-boggling.  

Can't wait until next year!!!