Plywood, papier mache and a little imagination...
"PORTRAIT OF TOM SILVER—WONDERING WHETHER IT'S WORK IT"
Photos by Mohamed Behravesh
A coed ponders the papier mache sculpture by David Smith - Greenwood — and wonders.
...the result: 'absurd fantasy'
"AMELIA, BABY, PLEASE COME HOME"
This David Smith-Greenwood creation is meant to "destroy a simple form." The coed is not Amelia.
By Jim Cole Kansan Staff Reporter
Mix two parts plywood, three parts papier mache, a splash of paint and a lot of imagination—and you have a contemporary sculpture display like the one outside the door of the Kansas Union Forum Room.
Using these ingredients—with emphasis on imagination—two KU Fine Arts students, David Smith-Greenwood, Amherst, Mass., graduate student, and Lawrence Clark, Denver, Colo., graduate student, have put together a colorful—and unusual—sculpture display.
Both students, desiring to break away from the classical forms of sculpture, have created an atmosphere which Clark termed a mood of "absurd fantasy."
This mood is reflected-in Smith-Greenwood's "Portrait of Tom Silver—Wondering Whether It's Worth It."
Referring to one of his works "No. 12, Pat. Pend." Smith-Greenwood said, "I disagree with the idea that sculpture has to be monumental and somber. I believe it should have life and freedom."
And "Amelia, Baby, Please Come Home" is not an excerpt from a pleading love letter but another Smith-Greenwood creation which attempts to "make a surface decoration and destroy a simple form."
Some inventive student has found that the sculpture "Untitled" has a practical use along with its aesthetic qualities that of a trash receptacle.
"UNTITLED'
Lawrence Clark's abstraction may have no little, but no one can claim it is useless. Someone has discovered it makes a dandy waste basket.
"NO. 12, PAT, PEND."
The U.S. Patent Office may deliberate a long time before giving David Smith-Greenwood creation a patent. They still don't know what it is supposed to do.