The latest collection of artworks by South-Africa-born, Massachusetts-based artist Jennifer Maestre is a rather curious tribute to the form and function of the sea urchin. Though the designer presents the dangerous yet alluring creature’s beauty to the tee, the materials she used to create the likeness of the fascinating marine being is extraordinarily unusual, to say the least.
Maestre used heads of sharpened color pencils to present a paradox between the lively creature and the anonymity of the everyday industrial object.
By presenting a fiercely sharp and edgy aspect of the otherwise mundane and forgotten writing instrument, the designer brings forth the ferocity of the sea urchins themselves and by sewing the pencil heads together is able to offer her sculptures a life-like flexibility giving them a contradictory definition within the parameters of life and art, vulnerability and fearsomeness as well as fragility at the same time.
The stunning collection will be exhibited at the SOFA NYC with Mobilia gallery from May 29- June 1, 2008.
Source: Cube Me
