I’ve always been simplistic colors. What I mean by that is that I’ve never been into having thousands of colors in one art piece. Blending of colors to shading to smearing. All of these artistic approaches to manipulating color into a piece isn’t as interesting as: BAM! Yellow. BAM! Blue. BAM! White. I’ve always enjoyed colors that are flat yet bright. Colors that take up their own large space on the canvas. Sarah Sze made a piece that she had been working on for over ten years. She was born in Boston Massachusetts in 1969. Right off the bat I noticed that a lot of her projects are composed of many pieces than hang, stand, and cast shadows.
However, despite her many structures and models that catch the eye of her fans, I found something that took my breath away. Earlier I mentioned she had been working for over 10 years to create this piece. During the build of a new subway station, Sarah Sze contributed to the project with her art. She focused on the concept of time and space and the way it warps as we move through it. Through printing and technology, Sarah was able to design and construct gigantic walls of blue and white art. Some walls show paper swooshing around from the intense wind created by the fast moving trains passing by. Other walls show buildings and power lines. Some walls show nothing but a giant flock of birds. Everywhere you look is something completely different. Everything looking as if its stuck in motion. Almost as if the world around you had be paused and painted.
This gigantic piece is called:”Blueprint for a Landscape”. She decided to call it that because the 2D print helps us understand the 3D space.
“According to the MTA, it is the system’s “first major expansion in more than 50 years” as well as “the largest permanent public art installation in state history.”” (Allison Meier, 2017).
Overall, Sarah Sze truly amazed me with how far she is willing to go to express an idea she takes interest in. It’s a huge inspiration for wanna be artists like me. Although I don’t think I’de have enough patience (or money) to create a project like the ones she has, I do believe I will one day have enough artistic ability to create projects that people stop and stare at the way I stopped and stared at her art.