by Rachel Spurling

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Empty

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My sculpture, Empty, loosely represents a series of hot air balloons that are slowly deflating. The single form next to the balloons represents the point in which the balloons originate from. The body of this sculpture creates a unified form and overall mass through the repetitive stacking of similar shapes. The sculpture resembles an abstracted idea of existence, but it also provokes many different topics and questions. Looking at the balloons and this process of deflation it is clear that once the remaining air has left each vessel, there will be nothing. Only the empty shells of the previous effervescent bodies. This sculpture captures a brief moment in the transition from life to death. It is a memory frozen in time. Though, we do not see the balloon inflated, we assume that it once was.

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