Loops

2010. Used belts. 5' x 5'

Detail

Most contemporary artworks are formed with some form of collaboration. This work was inspired by Jean Shin, who is an artist that collects items from people and transforms them into a sculpture or installation. She sees the objects as representatives of the people who donated them; yet having great numbers of them suggest larger meanings. For this piece I collected used belts from people and connected them together to form a kind of net. Each loop depends upon others for support, in the same way that people must depend on each other to create something larger than themselves.