Special Edition: Midterm

Untitled, 1960 by Lee Bontecou who was an American born in 1951.

It is made of steel and copper wire that she welded together and the canvas she salvaged from a used conveyor belt that had been discarded by a neighbor business and some burlap. The canvas and burlap are stretched and attached with wire onto the copper wire and steel though each fragment is blocked off to create levels and in a sense texture. This caught my eye simply due to the fact that it wasn't just some painting or an object created to look like something. It was on a wall with hardly anything else around to look at though I dare say my mind see's a hollow tree trunk from a bird's eye view looking down. The patches of burlap and canvas add almost like a wood texture to the entirety of the structure while the gaping black hole in the center draws a viewer farther in. It is simple, yet not totally so and it isn't trying to portray or shift into a form that is recognizable though are minds tend to do so automatically, thus my association to the bottom of a tree trunk. Its something truly incredible and one of a kind and although it seems like it doesn't belong in any actual place, this is what grasps my attention and reels me in.
"I am what I am even if I make no sense"
This is what I take from this untitled masterpiece.