Who, me?

"Who, me?"
18"x12"x1/2"
broken skateboards and already existing structure




Identity Project: this project really helped me figure out who I am, where i came from, and helped me realize some situations that have shaped the person i am today.

abiding images: skateboards, cross, and gravestone markers

I chose these images/objects because they have greatly affected my life and who i've become. I chose skateboards because thats what i do. I have been doing it since i was 14 or so and i am now 21 so that has taken up alot of my life. It's one of the few things i have been able to commit to in my life. Another image is the cross. I was grew up in a christian home and was raised with those values. Sometimes i stray away from those values but ultimately those values are how i live my live and how i make decisions about my life. And the last thing image that has shaped me is a gravestone marker. In my life ive seen all too many people that i know, and who are close to me, die or have near death experiences. This has fueled me to live life to the fullest as well as remember the negative things life throws at you. All of these things have shaped me to the person i am today and who knows who i'd be, where i'd be, or what situations i'd have gotten into.


Form: I chose to use the skateboards as my materials to make my sculpture for a few reasons. First, i used it because thats what i had. Secondly, skateboarding is how i was connected to one of my friends, who actually died while he was skating. And i used the broken skateboards to symbolize the broken feelings that come with death and grieve. I chose to use the cross because its used as a gravestone marker as well as a reference to religion and the peace and hope that comes through god in time of very emotional experience. I chose to have the cross falling to symolize the "falling" of the people close to me. I wanted to put my peace in a place that had an eerie feeling to it because thats how i feel about death, so i put it in front of a run down shack in the gardens on campus. I wanted to keep the scratches in the skateboard to show that it is a skateboard and i thought because it is broken, used, and has character i should leave the edges of the form rough.