XPI Student Showcase
Welcome to Xpress Plugged In, our new online gallery of student expressions. Please follow the submission instructions CAREFULLY. New work will be posted every Monday.
-- Nancy Green, editor of XPI
Selections for the Week of 7/11/2011
Spotlight on Sam Smith, 12th grade
Howard W. Blake High School, Tampa
Artist Statement
--Sam Smith
What inspires me to create is nature or natural form and how light interacts with it. Almost every piece I create deals with positive and negative space and how light or shadow is used. Pieces such as Log Brushmore and Peepwood use natural elements like wood to recreate the human form, or a caricatured rendition of such. Pieces such as Planked Tree and Illuminati are abstracted forms emulating nature in their use of raw wood. Collage shows a geometric form in a naturalistic, almost rock-like environment, which creates an interesting contrast. All of these pieces show a different angle on nature and how nature can be interpreted.
Original sculptures by Sam Smith, 12th grade,
Howard W. Blake High School, Tampa
Peepwood, wood
Log Brushmore, wood
Illuminati, mixed media
Collage, cork and paper
Planked Tree, wood