Lily Cox-Richard is a sculpture, as well as a metal-smither. Lily is very interested in metaphors and analogies. All of her works of art consist of a metaphor. She has used a variety of materials, including plaster, marble, and copper. Lily spent two months living and working in an Austrian quarry to figure out plaster and marble sculptures.
Lily’s presentation began with belt buckles. Her inspiration was the truck drivers that she had met on the road. A belt buckle gives a sense of identity about the person who is wearing it, but in an awkward part of the body. She used American history, Contemporary American Culture, and personal stories from truck drivers as inspiration when designing the belt buckles. I liked how Lily used person stories from truck drivers and embodied them in an article of clothing. …show more content…
She used analogies and metaphors to cover up a concept. For example, showing lightning as political protests with a story of a lightning rod salesman. Lily did research as a form, that being not her main point of inspiration. Her exhibit showed how Ben Franklin was successful because the atmosphere is better and different in America. The lightning exhibit metaphorically represented fear as desire. Lily used many analogies for the lightning exhibit, which made it difficult for me to grasp the many concepts. I did not like this project because it was hard for me to understand.
Lily had an interest in 1970 cemeteries. Cemeteries that are also a sculpture garden. She thinks of it as a metaphor of life, death, and reflecting. Lily’s first outdoor exhibit was in a cemetery. She wanted to make a sculpture that made the viewer look down, instead of up. The sculpture had mushrooms and microorganisms in a fairy circle representing morning and social systems. I appreciate her thought process for this project. Lily brought together the emotions of people standing in a cemetery into a
Lily’s presentation began with belt buckles. Her inspiration was the truck drivers that she had met on the road. A belt buckle gives a sense of identity about the person who is wearing it, but in an awkward part of the body. She used American history, Contemporary American Culture, and personal stories from truck drivers as inspiration when designing the belt buckles. I liked how Lily used person stories from truck drivers and embodied them in an article of clothing. …show more content…
She used analogies and metaphors to cover up a concept. For example, showing lightning as political protests with a story of a lightning rod salesman. Lily did research as a form, that being not her main point of inspiration. Her exhibit showed how Ben Franklin was successful because the atmosphere is better and different in America. The lightning exhibit metaphorically represented fear as desire. Lily used many analogies for the lightning exhibit, which made it difficult for me to grasp the many concepts. I did not like this project because it was hard for me to understand.
Lily had an interest in 1970 cemeteries. Cemeteries that are also a sculpture garden. She thinks of it as a metaphor of life, death, and reflecting. Lily’s first outdoor exhibit was in a cemetery. She wanted to make a sculpture that made the viewer look down, instead of up. The sculpture had mushrooms and microorganisms in a fairy circle representing morning and social systems. I appreciate her thought process for this project. Lily brought together the emotions of people standing in a cemetery into a