My Art History final project. I decided to delve into 'land art', something I have no experience at all in. I'm always looking into new forms of art and modern art in particular has always drawn me.

I take inspiration mostly from the mirror and soil sculptures of Robert Smithson (go google him, his work is fantastic) and in small part by contemporary art in general. I took the idea of mirrors and soil and combined it with the feel of artificiality that's come into nearly every faucet of my culture's lifestyle. The materials were all ones I had on hand; a big plastic planter, potting soil, a greenhouse flower, and the mirrors off a bathroom cabinet.

The point being... everything in this sculpture is man-made, even the flower. The mirrors are there to draw attention to it, making you 'focus' on it, as well as reflecting the plant many times till it looses its meaning, much like Andy Warhol did in his repeated image pictures.

For those who aren't educated in Art History, or just don't 'get' modern art... Its just a pretty flower in a pot with mirrors behind it, and the flower is, ultimately, as man-made as the pot and mirrors. No big, earth-shattering ideas here.

Haha... funny storry. I was stripping the wood frame from the mirrors and setting them down on my kitchen table. They have stick strips on the back that were ment to hold them to the wood, and not thinking, I layed one down with the sticky part down... which meant, of course, that I had a tough time getting it back up, lol. I wasn't careful, pulled too hard, and Snap! Broke one of the mirrors right in half. You can't see it in the sculpture because I taped it with packaging tape and buried it up to that crack. hur hur hur.