Scaled to Space

Virginia T Coleman 

SCALE : a proportion between two sets of dimensions (as between those of a drawing and its original)

Ideas spawn from anywhere; they come in small forms and large ideologies. I have spent many years building small sculptures of my ideas vying my time until I could eventually take one of those small notions and scale it up to create a large sculptural idea that occupies the entire gallery space… A piece of art that drives an interaction between the audience and the space; a piece of art that allows the viewer to be immersed within the sculpture itself.

Sculptures are a way to create esoteric statements on the human condition using forms as the dialogue. A sculpture permeates the viewers space, creating a new discussion and heightening the initial form’s notions. 

Over the past year, I have been working on creating Structural Curiosity to full Scale. A dynamic sculpture that carves itself into space with teetering bold forms. This is engineered to be an indoor and outdoor sculpture. 

“Sculpture occupies real space like we do… you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object” Chuck Close