kasprzak hannah: A Natural History of The Senses Relief Sculpture

Overwhelming Confinement

spray foam, acrylic paint, glow-in-the-dark paint, chicken wire

36" x 38"' x 10.5"

Full, from an angle

Detail #1

Detail #2

This sculpture explores ideas from and is inspired by sight and bioluminescence. The two most important aspects of this relief sculpture are the chicken wire and spray foam. For the chicken wire, I wanted to visually communicate something permanent and man-made, to represent the deterrents of marine life in our ecosystem. The ripped-up nature of the chicken wire and the random placement of it on the wall is supposed to communicate “trash” in a way. On the other hand, the spray foam is extremely fluid and expands wherever I put it, representing life in the ocean. The spray foam is intertwined with the chicken wire, almost appearing trapped, as I wanted to display the impact of humans on marine ecosystems. Additionally, the spray foam is coated in several layers of glow-in-the-dark paint, glitter paint, and metallic paint to visually communicate bioluminescence.