monika bravo
Category: Artist/Individual
Discipline: Public Art
Program Affiliations: Artist Roster
Medium: 4 sculptural interventions, suspended glass elements, 15 separate glass mosaic and ceramic prints on the walls. Commissioning agency: City of Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture and the Boston Art Commission Dimensions: 4 suspended mobiles each 72″ x 36″ x 100″ each, and 214 square ft of mosaics. Description: With Courage, find a Vocation embodying your perspective to serve in the Community. The shapes of the suspended float glass are abstractions of these words, using a modular typeface, {Josef Albers, Bauhaus, 1923}. Consisting of three shapes: a square, a circle, and a quarter circle of the same radius-organized on a grid. The mosaics on the wall behind the mobiles represent the original five islands of East Boston that became one with the landfill used to make the airport – this fragmentation of the internal self is reflected in society. I invite viewers to move around the space, embodying the various perspectives, and in that be in the potential for dialogue. Created and informed in conjunction with a Community Engagement Workshop held prior, in three sessions “EN-JOY_I SEE U IN ME {in a new perspective}”. http://www.studioofendlessideas.com/mbravounusmundus
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Commissioning agency: Arts @MSP, MSP Airport Foundation Medium: float Glass Panels intervention (airbrush) / digital lamination Dimensions: two double sided glass walls / 4 views of 7’-6” H x 32’ W (9/16”)each Description: An architectural separation between the intimate space of the restrooms and the long side corridor that connects the gates to leisure areas. Minnesota’s luscious and mesmerizing landscape inspires the mind to reveal what is contained under the subsoil, the passage of time in layers unseen to the eye. These deep sediments, the space, a build-up over years of evolution, and nature’s forces working upon matter displays a colorful fabric, a space that holds us. Awareness comes from the relationship an individual establishes with themselves, the environment, and one another. In this piece, Time is not just perceived as cyclical, it is also represented as an itinerary, a route, a line that defines migratory routes, as nodes connecting the transitions, progressions, and liminal places between evolution. The compositions stem from its topography, geological data, the natural surroundings, lines, and nodes interweave with small vignettes that give away old postcards from the location. http://www.studioofendlessideas.com/upcoming-liminal
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