Content Taboo Brian Keith Buckalew
Content Taboo by Brian Keith Buckalew. The sculpture address issues of societies views on social and cultural taboos. Along with new innovative materials and techniques used to create shapes and forms of individual pieces. The work brings awareness to how society perceive bias norms. This paper will first focus on my initial response to the piece and first impressions. Then examine the innovative approach used within the scope of media and form of the artist visual expressions.
The artist main point attempts to invite viewers to initiate an open dialog on subjects concerning taboos. Content Taboo by Brian Keith Buckalew illustrates a burial ground of small cist (coffins) with more than one set of skeletons enclosed within each box. Supported …show more content…
Although I was wrong in my first observations of the work. The initial impression of the work leaned toward Buckalew concerns for the deaths of small children. The initial reaction was a startling discovery of what looked like fingers inside the cist that happened to be parts of the rib cage from remains of corpses. From that point I wondered how the small coffins link to the subjects concerning taboos. The word Content from my perspective represent satisfaction or pleased. As with the word Taboos from my perspective represents censorships, in that society censor norms. Together the word meaning represents satisfied censorship. Therefore, further analysis of each individual aspect of the work needs more consideration.
Upon further examination, the media and form of visual expressions of the sculpture led to dissecting materials used and how the work links to opening discussion concerning Content Taboos. The sculpture consists of an assemblage wood one of the traditional methods for creating art, plastic a new innovative way of creating art that uses three-dimensional printing and I believe metal materials that held the structure in place with chains, nails, and hinges. The work is symbolic and representational as the entire mass represents the symbolic form of a burial
The artist main point attempts to invite viewers to initiate an open dialog on subjects concerning taboos. Content Taboo by Brian Keith Buckalew illustrates a burial ground of small cist (coffins) with more than one set of skeletons enclosed within each box. Supported …show more content…
Although I was wrong in my first observations of the work. The initial impression of the work leaned toward Buckalew concerns for the deaths of small children. The initial reaction was a startling discovery of what looked like fingers inside the cist that happened to be parts of the rib cage from remains of corpses. From that point I wondered how the small coffins link to the subjects concerning taboos. The word Content from my perspective represent satisfaction or pleased. As with the word Taboos from my perspective represents censorships, in that society censor norms. Together the word meaning represents satisfied censorship. Therefore, further analysis of each individual aspect of the work needs more consideration.
Upon further examination, the media and form of visual expressions of the sculpture led to dissecting materials used and how the work links to opening discussion concerning Content Taboos. The sculpture consists of an assemblage wood one of the traditional methods for creating art, plastic a new innovative way of creating art that uses three-dimensional printing and I believe metal materials that held the structure in place with chains, nails, and hinges. The work is symbolic and representational as the entire mass represents the symbolic form of a burial