visual mass

this was just a fun experiment, given a little extra urgency by the fading light of a november afternoon. this arrangement is laid out flat, so none of these objects is bearing down on any of the others with any actual weight. but they have visual weight, and they give the illusion of depending on each other to balance out the structure, and keep it from falling to pieces. it’s a little bit of magic, like the depth of perspective in a painting that technically lies flat on a rectangle of canvas. what fun, to find a way to create such an illusion. don’t touch. it’s very fragile…

calder-inspired leaf sculpture