Natassja King
Art Educator
My Personal Artwork
Sculpture
Sculpture is such a versatile art form that it often intersects with drawing, performance, painting, architecture, and any other type of visual art you can think of. To find an art practice with no sculptural elements would be very difficult indeed. Sculpture is the way our art takes up space; it is so omnipresent we rarely even realize it is there.
I created this Totoro sculpture using clay. It was later fired and serves as a lasting reminder of my childhood.
This piece, entitled "Story Home," represents my idea of home. When I was a child, we moved so often we sometimes didn't even unpack our boxes. In time, I did not connect "home" with permanence or stability; I connected it with the safety and peace I felt whenever I read a book.
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This flimsy home provides no real shelter, but the stories woven in between the strands of its walls were all the shelter I ever needed.
This sculptural installation is an exploration of my relationship to food and body image. Using blocks of plaster, I carved them down into figures of varying sizes and affects.
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I have always been fascinated by humankind's driving need to impose order and control on the chaotic beauty of nature. We even turn around and impose it on ourselves, contorting our messy lives to fit into pretty homes and civilized jobs. So I took a quaint Victorian style house and reimagined it as a cage, complete with live inhabitants (who were not harmed in any way and were later returned to their real home).
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See the video of this installation here: