KRISTEN A. FOX

CORAL SKETCH



During an excursion to the Natural History Museum, I was intrigued by patterns on surfaces as well as in form and space on exhibited rocks and minerals, the prehistoric underwater creatures, and in coral.  I liked the multi-directionality of the coral’s facets and how their position dicated the form of the surface.  I tried to mimic this attribute in a scupture I made out of individually rolled tubes of paper.  The inner surface is smooth and protected like the inside surface of the coral, and at the outside surface, the dimensions of the tubes vary to create an undulating and uneven texture.  The directionality of the tubes dictate the form of the sculpture.

 

For a later sculpture in steel, I was interested in the grouping of spacial elements to create larger volumes of space and form, as each module of space in a piece of coral builds together to form a larger structure.  Initially, I created a series of paper models to explore how I could capture space with form in multiple ways.  I finally settled on a form based on the idea of a swarm, wherein all elements are directional and work together to create a larger form that is centrally focused.  This mimiced the form of the coral in terms of small elements making up the whole.