She describes the project:
“I developed this sphere with wood pellets. I placed some dried leaves around it to remind us that those pellets were part of mother nature.
On the "technical" side, I used a tupperware to mold the shape and glue to keep all the pellets together.”
She has taken wood pellets, which are shaped into small cylinders, and with glue she has created a sphere, with dried leaves as a foil to the processed pellets.
The circle is at the forefront of the work: the sphere, the cylinders, the ring of leaves around it. This emphasizes the cycle of the tree through the leaves and into the pellets.
This work makes me feel slightly uneasy, because I want the sphere to smooth itself out, since it is already so very round. It is a clean shape made out of all the cylinders pointing in different dierections, which creates the feeling order is coming out of chaos.
This oxymoron is also a reminder that these processed wooden pellets with their geometric shape are made out of natural materials. This may be more effective than the inclusion of the dry leaves.
Although the leaves add color, they have a very different form to them so that the work appears less unified because they are there. Yet this also places the sphere into a more natural setting in my mind's eye, because it is reminiscent of an acorn on a forest floor.
I think that this piece is successful in exploring the link between organic materials and geometric forms and is a creative use of the materials that Azu had available to her.
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