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SHE URCHIN This sculpture was created by welding hundreds of multiple sized discs together but most were 1 inch discs.. She stands 28 inches tall x 18 inches wide X 12.5 inches deep and weighs 42 pounds. After the discs were in place I spent a day and a half making the the spines and welding them in to place where the space was available for the whole piece was not supposed to be completly balanced because of the meaning behind it.. Very little is balanced in life so why should art not reflect that. The piece from the artists perspective : SHE URCHIN is a reperesentation of a female personality type…. She is a beautiful girl who knows she’s beautiful and dangerous because she uses it as a weapon. She is a person who uses sexual allure as a tool. I made this piece because in this day of the me too movement we can not forget that there is is the counter creature. I will agree full hearted that there needs to be a reigning in of the older “ mens club “ type men.. and will address that issue in future work but this piece is about the woman who usues her beauty in a viscious way.. I tried hard to make you not be able to see the spines all through her front when looking straight forward at her. To me the spines around the sides are almost like rays of light, but thats just the deception.. How could they be ? They are black and sharp… but thats part of the deception… they break up the light on the sides to create the perception of rays of light when in actuality they are sharp spines out in in the open, but her beauty distracts you from that…He shiny being , glossy and rich in form, draws you in to where you forget anything other than her… till she gets you close,, and then you become lost in the curves, lost in the deception lost in the being you perceived versus the being that exists. Lost in her tangle, you are in trouble, yet only with time , and looking at her from multiple angles do you realize that the rays of light were never rays of light.. They were the spaces between the spines that you are now so ever so dangerously close to. So very dangerously close to. If you have any hope to survive the SHE URCHIN you must carefully pull yourself away without snagging yourself on her spines..Easley said but very difficult to do.
SHE URCHIN This sculpture was created by welding hundreds of multiple sized discs together but most were 1 inch discs.. She stands 28 inches tall x 18 inches wide X 12.5 inches deep and weighs 42 pounds. After the discs were in place I spent a day and a half making the the spines and welding them in to place where the space was available for the whole piece was not supposed to be completly balanced because of the meaning behind it.. Very little is balanced in life so why should art not reflect that. The piece from the artists perspective : SHE URCHIN is a reperesentation of a female personality type…. She is a beautiful girl who knows she’s beautiful and dangerous because she uses it as a weapon. She is a person who uses sexual allure as a tool. I made this piece because in this day of the me too movement we can not forget that there is is the counter creature. I will agree full hearted that there needs to be a reigning in of the older “ mens club “ type men.. and will address that issue in future work but this piece is about the woman who usues her beauty in a viscious way.. I tried hard to make you not be able to see the spines all through her front when looking straight forward at her. To me the spines around the sides are almost like rays of light, but thats just the deception.. How could they be ? They are black and sharp… but thats part of the deception… they break up the light on the sides to create the perception of rays of light when in actuality they are sharp spines out in in the open, but her beauty distracts you from that…He shiny being , glossy and rich in form, draws you in to where you forget anything other than her… till she gets you close,, and then you become lost in the curves, lost in the deception lost in the being you perceived versus the being that exists. Lost in her tangle, you are in trouble, yet only with time , and looking at her from multiple angles do you realize that the rays of light were never rays of light.. They were the spaces between the spines that you are now so ever so dangerously close to. So very dangerously close to. If you have any hope to survive the SHE URCHIN you must carefully pull yourself away without snagging yourself on her spines..Easley said but very difficult to do.
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Scott Wilkes

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SHE URCHIN This sculpture was created by welding hundreds of multiple sized discs together but most were 1 inch discs.. She stands 28 inches tall x 18 inches wide X 12.5 inches deep and weighs 42 pounds. After the discs were in place I spent a day and a half making the the spines and welding them in to place where the space was available for the whole piece was not supposed to be completly balanced because of the meaning behind it.. Very little is balanced in life so why should art not reflect that. The piece from the artists perspective : SHE URCHIN is a reperesentation of a female personality type…. She is a beautiful girl who knows she’s beautiful and dangerous because she uses it as a weapon. She is a person who uses sexual allure as a tool. I made this piece because in this day of the me too movement we can not forget that there is is the counter creature. I will agree full hearted that there needs to be a reigning in of the older “ mens club “ type men.. and will address that issue in future work but this piece is about the woman who usues her beauty in a viscious way.. I tried hard to make you not be able to see the spines all through her front when looking straight forward at her. To me the spines around the sides are almost like rays of light, but thats just the deception.. How could they be ? They are black and sharp… but thats part of the deception… they break up the light on the sides to create the perception of rays of light when in actuality they are sharp spines out in in the open, but her beauty distracts you from that…He shiny being , glossy and rich in form, draws you in to where you forget anything other than her… till she gets you close,, and then you become lost in the curves, lost in the deception lost in the being you perceived versus the being that exists. Lost in her tangle, you are in trouble, yet only with time , and looking at her from multiple angles do you realize that the rays of light were never rays of light.. They were the spaces between the spines that you are now so ever so dangerously close to. So very dangerously close to. If you have any hope to survive the SHE URCHIN you must carefully pull yourself away without snagging yourself on her spines..Easley said but very difficult to do.

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Hello, my name is Scott Wilkes a.k.a Ironheart. I am not going to have a stuffy bio, I’m going to just tell it like it is. I reside in the wonderful City of austin Tx and although a transplant I have been here since 1988. I think My artistic nature started pretty early in life, even before I started school. I was known for taking my toys and taking a hammer to them and then taking the parts and gluing them back together in new forms. It didn’t please my parents but when I started in on the neighbor kids toys that came to an end. After that I was more fond of old cardboard boxes and styrofoam packing materials.. Some shears , some duct tape, elmers glue.. and I would make all sorts of things. But those don’t hold up well. Through the years I did all sorts of things and never really thought of as it was art but in retrospect I guess in a way it was all a learning process that lead to my Art. It wasn’t until high school that I took an actual art class from a wonderful teacher. I wish I could remember That teachers name. She was pivotal to my world and introduced me to DALI , ESCHER , H.R GIGER. Later I found OLIVIA, SORAYAMA , VARGAS , NAGEL . They are all major influences. There are many more but they are the ones who stand out the most. This will lead into my education as far as art.. I didn’t get more than a couple years of actual teaching ,,, but what I did get, I think was substantial. And I took it from there. It did take 20 more years .. But I’m ok with that. I made a career out of welding which in a way is an art form itself which takes many years to truly master. After 20 years of it is when I began to sculpt for I finally felt confident with the medium along with having a life change that flooded me with emotions that I had to express in some sort of constructive fashion. I truly enjoy taking a medium which in so many ways is usually considered cold, hard, rigid and rough and making something which conveys softness, warmth, movement and flow. I also would like to say a special thank you to R.S.S and more specifically to Don White for the use of the hydraulic shear to cut all the pieces and his confidence in my artwork. He was the toughest boss I ever had, but helped shape me in to the man I am today... thanks Captain Cowboy !

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