Mike Roig, Sculpture

©2009
Looking Up

 

Sometimes it's just about art.

Sometimes it's not.

This has become the most photographed piece in my home exhibition space. The neighborhood school kids call him "Obamahead."

I had launched into the creation of this sculpture intending only to play on the idea of a modern Easter Island monument.

Wall Street was in melt down and I came to interpret this evolving sculpture as an allusion to those modern masters

of our world creating their own Easter Island moment. Yet the moment I placed it in the yard the questions

began as to whether it was supposed to be Obama. Since it suited my hopes in the coming

election I decided to not discourage this interpretation and buck the zeitgeist of the times.

Nevertheless I think this amply demonstrates that creation by the artist is one journey,

and the life of the piece of art in the eye of its beholders is a whole other

creative adventure. I call him “Looking Up,”

and leave the door open to further interpretation.

Dimensions:   Height: 9'      Width: 3'       Depth: 5'


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