Lucy and George Orta. These two are actually man and wife, both living, working a brteathing the same vision. They go travelling to sorce inspiration for their works and have recently tyravelled to Zabilin in Cyro. They went to a huge recyling communtity called Moca Town. Where vthey recycked plastic bottles, they inspration grew from a huge bundle of plastic bottles thats trated to look like sculpture, They started looking into using plastic bottles as material and building material, like brick. The clouds project was linked with 120 architechture students, which tells me space, structure and size doesnt face them. They wanted it to be seemeless, they call it a nebuless form. They start to think of collection of waste in the ocean startuing a thought process of movement and fluidity. She keeps reffereing it to be a nebuless form, no idea what that meant so i Google'd it, neb·u·lous
1. Cloudy, misty, or hazy.
2. Lacking definite form or limits; vague: nebulous assurances of future cooperation.
3. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a nebula.
They talk about a discussion with water with liquid and wanted to combine the two products togther to get thiese colosal sculptures. I like the fact that grouped up with students, i thin k to gte some young new fresh sense combining with their wise and experienced minds. I like that they have shared opportunity with the students and not shyed away from letting the audiemnce know.
Lucy says her previous work are kind of kit like? And shes expressed fluidity and movbement through these peices and
The rath of medusa, they talk about the boat being capsized and the migration of the sailors in the picture, they linked that to a previous project about antarctica and talking about the peace in antactica and people fleeing from their homes. They talk about spirits in their work from the stories. They say the spirits are drawn out of the place and washed down the river. 'Water Spirits' They make up characters such as mannon, ulbelka, gyptis, mary magdalin, her tears start the flow of water that runs through the river.
Their main influence for work is political, environmental and social issues, they want to express these issues in a free flow movement and kind of is like story telling, drawing in the pblic and creating this new interpretation for the issues.
They have actualy made some performances, for rath of meduca, entailing the relasing of sprit and washing them away in the ocean just like the plastic bottles. They use the word 'shipwreked' to describe it. The raft is swimming in a sea of shirts, identities, and they were all the identity and then washing the identitioes away. Pushing their hurt and identities away. They put their sculptures in as props, they add in inflatable beach toys, making them out of paper mache and resin. They talk about a beach and siociety being ignorant to the other side of the beach where there are migrants coming to seek serenity and survival. Its about what the eye sees and what it doesnt want to see.
They present their work spced out, in a modern organised kind of way, as in everything has a place, i like how theyve placed thing around, making them apparent to the audience and isnt all brickity brack like. The wrath of madusa peice is placed in a vast room in the midde, which i think represents the vastness of the ocean, and the panic they must of felt being surrounded by water and not land, the shirts place all around like little islands and false security, looking also a little like floating bodies, i think its a little ironic how the peice is brightly painting with shades of pastels, putting a sweet tuck shop take on the piece but when you actually look into the piece and see the shirts hanging loosly on the floor, empty, lifeless and still, you start to feel a shudder and studying the bright shades of pastel because faded with this dark cloud of depression that looms with the past and story this peice entails.
