The Guardian - Frisco, TX, US
N 33° 10.678 W 096° 51.546
14S E 699610 N 3673058
O'Michaels artwork at Fire Station #6 is meant to serve as a tribute to the dedication and sacrifice of our hard working firefighters.
Waymark Code: WMBHBG
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/22/2011
Views: 6
Her artistic aesthetic springs from flat West Texas, a land punctuated with cacti, steel-rig trees and pump jacks that start with the dirt, survive the wind and end in the sky. The desert has a different rhythm than forests or urban environments. Her isolated childhood in the desert on a tract of land larger than the isle of Manhattan, coming from a family of musicians and the fact that her paternal grandfather was a coalmine blacksmith inform her creativity. Her sculpture continues this vision and the industrial process of iron and steel.? ?Her work balances content, intuition and beauty by pushing my materials and technical expertise. It explores the interaction of mass, structure, space, surface shadow and volume through quality of line in 360 degrees. An early interest in Oriental calligraphy and mark-making places quality of line as important to me as how mass divides space. Though spatial division is an automatic result, the placement of line and form in space are of equal significance. Content is stated by material and form through interaction of planes, shadow and shape. Part of the content is contained in the edge, weight and tensile strength of steel.
Title: The Guardian
Artist: Michelle O’Michael
Media (materials) used: Core-ten steel, plate glass
Location (specific park, transit center, library, etc.): Fire Station #6
Date of creation or placement: 2008
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