David Isakson
Religion Is a Crutch, 2017
55” x 11” x 2”.
Lamp/ assemblage.
Website: www.facebook.com/davidisaksonart/
California, USA
Image by David Isakson
VO by Mari Weiss
55” x 11” x 2”.
Lamp/ assemblage.
Website: www.facebook.com/davidisaksonart/
California, USA
Image by David Isakson
VO by Mari Weiss
ARTIST STATEMENT:
My sculptures fool the eye by bringing the viewer into an interactive space where function and form are as important as irony and humor. Laughter breaks down barriers and heals the broken, sometimes schizophrenic minds of people regarding disability. As someone who lives with schizophrenia, I am sensitive to material in a way that might be different from other sculptors, but it gives me an advantage in that I can see utility in what people might term garbage.
-David Isakson
-David Isakson
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TrickleDown Economics Machine, 2014
22” x 25” X 48” Walker, mop wringer with flag, electric typewriter and steel paint Photo by Jennifer Maldonado VO by Gia Mora |
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DESCRIPTIONS:
Religion Is a Crutch:
A metal shaft sticks out perpendicularly from the arm rest of a wooden crutch. On the shaft is a rubber wheel and at the end is a stainless steel kitchen box grater with a light bulb in it. A yellow electrical cord is zip tied to the right side of the crutch struts. Resting across the hand grip are the interior wooden pieces of piano keys. Just below on the left of the hand grip is a jawbone. The crutch stands upright in a round, heavy metal stand.
-audio description by Teri Grossman
Trickledown Economics Machine blends a walker, a mop wringer with an American flag tangled inside, and an old electric typewriter.
The sculpture stands 4 feet tall. A mop wringer and its handle protrude from the top of the walker. Inside of the mop wringer is an American flag. The typewriter is mounted so its keys face the viewer instead of the user of the walker. It seems difficult if not impossible to lift and move the walker by its handles. The sculpture is painted a bright school bus yellow.
-audio description by A. Laura Brody
A metal shaft sticks out perpendicularly from the arm rest of a wooden crutch. On the shaft is a rubber wheel and at the end is a stainless steel kitchen box grater with a light bulb in it. A yellow electrical cord is zip tied to the right side of the crutch struts. Resting across the hand grip are the interior wooden pieces of piano keys. Just below on the left of the hand grip is a jawbone. The crutch stands upright in a round, heavy metal stand.
-audio description by Teri Grossman
Trickledown Economics Machine blends a walker, a mop wringer with an American flag tangled inside, and an old electric typewriter.
The sculpture stands 4 feet tall. A mop wringer and its handle protrude from the top of the walker. Inside of the mop wringer is an American flag. The typewriter is mounted so its keys face the viewer instead of the user of the walker. It seems difficult if not impossible to lift and move the walker by its handles. The sculpture is painted a bright school bus yellow.
-audio description by A. Laura Brody
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