London Vertolli's Art Blog

Artist Statement:      After four attempts on this project, I ended up with mini water bottle sculptures. After I made multiple molds for the bottles, I poured a couple of each to end up with a handful of them. I trimmed each piece with an exacto-knife to clean them up a bit. I stacked up the water bottles to put emphasis on our worldly plastic issue, especially about single-use plastic water bottles. These were relatively easy to create as the mold was already there, as is for making the real bottles. We overproduce so many and they end up in our environment, killing animals and us as humans. If we stop producing these harmful bottles altogether, our environment would begin to improve significantly. Micro-plastics are coming back to harm humans. I hope to shed light on the overproduction of plastic bottles through my final piece. The final work is photographed in the greenery to show emphasis on the amount of plastic pollution in our environment.     ...

Artist Statement: My piece is titled The Ugly Duckling . My work, made of plaster, nails, skewers, and foam, is made to create an uncomfortable feeling for the viewer. To accomplish this feeling I made the object difficult to stand on its own, the plaster uneven, and the angled foam is randomly sticking out. I wanted to make this work hard for the viewer to look at and uneven so that you must be careful and cautious around my work. Unlike my last piece, which can be displayed at any angle, this one is much more fragile and weird to look at in comparison. I want to deter the viewer almost and make the work uncomfortable to not only look at, but just by being around the production.       I am inspired by John Newman and Lynda Benglis for my arts’ construction. Newman’s odd shapes helped me pick out the form. I looked at his various angles and shapes used in the works, which is where I made the idea for my almost tree-like shape. Benglis’ work appears heavy and is tex...