Artist Mykl Wells Builds a Gargantuan Upside Down Head Using Recycled Cardboard
Posted By Michael Carroll On October 11, 2012 @ 4:40 pm In Art,Reader Submitted Content,Recycled Materials | No Comments
For Cartasia [4], a biennial cardboard and paper art competition held in the medieval walled city of Lucca, Italy [5], artist Mykl Wells [6] constructed an incredible upside down head using recycled cardboard [7]. Wells’ piece, dubbed Snowdrop, was developed to reflect the Cartasia theme of “crisis and rebirth”. Wells chose to base his sculpture on the snowdrop (or galanthus nivalis [8]), a perennial bulb which cannot bloom until it has experienced the stress of the winter. The sculpture was also anthropomorphized by representing the bulb as an inverted head; it’s point of view was literally a world turned upside-down. Visit the artist’s site to learn the story behind the sculpture, in a detailed blog entry he calls How I spent my summer vacation or How I nearly killed myself making a giant upside-down cardboard head in the name of art. [6]
+ Mykl Wells [6]
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