Inspired

"Untitled", David Plotnick, copper porcelan and glass mobile, 12 x 14 x 8 in, 2010

This project involved exploring an artist who captured your interest learning about their inspiration, context, and visual language to create a piece fitting in that frame.  I chose to make a work inspired by a sculptor named Lee Bontecou.  It was based off of a mobile from the MoMA exhibit "All Freedom in Every Sense". It took her eighteen years to craft an elaborate mobile that would visually communicate the silent spinning of space.  I decided to work on a much smaller scale.  In eighteen hours, I have constructed a mobile that would show the inner workings of an atom.  It is chaotic as it is indivisible.  While highly abstract, I wanted to illustrae rhythm with strung beads representing subatomic particles whizzing at blinding speed.