A sculpture of transformation created for the First Night Worcester.
EGG - Beginning of Universe (from Ice to Steel)
10 feet high by 4 feet diameter
Ice; Stainless Steel; Plastic Cable Ties
2001 -- 2002
(Permanently installed in front of YWCA, Worcester City, MA)
Its
earlier incarnation -- a 4000-lb Ice Egg
which disappeared 4 months after
its construction in April 2002
is still a critical concept, invisibly
contained in its current visual image.
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DESCRIPTION: Performing the making the sculpture -- "EGG" starts with an Egg made of ice (size 7 feet tall, 4 feet diameter, stands on a 3-leg steel base). On Dec. 26, the ice Egg was sculpted in front of the Worcester Art Museum. After completing the ice Egg, Yin begins wrapping the steel wire over the Ice Egg and tie the white plastic cable ties on each crossing of two wires. The process is structured as a performance work. During the exhibition, audiences are encouraged to participate in the making of the sculpture (tying the cable ties to the wire). As the temperature rises, the ice Egg got smaller and eventually melt away and the fussy transparent steel Egg sculpture remains standing. The concept of this piece focuses on the dialogue between concretion and abstraction in sculptural forms. This double-image sculpture, both embedded the quality of "solidity" and "transparency" simultaneously, is a complete representation of what consists of the Universe--its material and its spirit. Entering the 3rd millennium, we create this sculpture "EGG" -- a symbol of birth, with this particular material and this process, to reflect the Time we are in and to contemplate on the future to come. |
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