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Yesterday our class had a unique assaignment in which we were asked to do a treasure hunt around our school. The treasure hunt involved us taking notes and finding ten specific sculptures around the campus. To my astonishment, I did not even know we had so many sculptures around the campus. As I walked around I didn't know how I never noticed such iconic pieces. The scupltures were the following:
"Learning Gives You Wings"
2011
Mixed Media Sculpture
By: Rafeal Consuegra
The message: I found in this work is the ladder of education and knowledge. As you begin school you start from the very bottom, and if your not good at school as well, but you can always rise. As years go by you reach higher grade levels, and even if your not the smartest student through practice you can also rise to the top. The angels climbing represent the steps they take in school in order to venture out to the world once school is over. Once your done with school, the world is yours for the taking. You can fly or roam to whatever you want to be in life, the world is yours for the taking through the key element of education.
Dynamite Baby(red sculpture)
1983
9 x 9 x 9
Painted Steel
By: Alfredo Halegua
The message: I noticed that this was a cube that was cut into three pieces and being transformed. The message I instantly receieved is that for everyone life has a different path and we all venture out in different directions. Our lives are constantly transforming, changing, and reconstructing.
Piet(black sculpture)
1984
18 x 6 x 4
Painted Steel
By: Alfredo Halegua
The message: What I grabbed from this piece is how everything that stands is not whole, Not everything that looks put together is complete. Their is always something missing. When you view this piece from the top it is whole but towards the bottom it had a cut out part missing.
Pie in the Sky
(Yellow sculpture)
1984
Alfredo Halequa,
Painted Steel
13 x 13 x 9
The message: What I obtained from this work is the impression of a bright prescence that does not fail to go unnoticed. Such as for example how lighting bolts always stand out, especially during the silence and darkness of the night time.
For the Birds
(yellow and black sculpture)
1990
Alfredo Halequa
Painted Steel
The message: What I took from this piece is just a sanctuary, a place to rest. The work is shaped in form of a seat in someway. Or just maybe a place to rest for the birds and other animals as the title of the work suggest.
Orlanda Arch1987
(Stainless steel sculpture)
Alfredo Halequa
The message: What I captured from this sculpture is the essence of resistance, remaining firm. The way it is positioned and how it is standing is very firm, and seems very heaavy, but it doesn't look like it could ever fall. It looks strongly intact and in place.
Horizontal Abstraction
Alfredo Halequa
Epoxy
(organic)
1964
The message: What I took from this work is the abstract of elephant sculpture. From the Left of the photo you see the circle which is the eye of the elephant, and the trunk hanging down.
Cubolic
Alfredo Halequa
(Geometric shape)
Painted steel
9 x 9 x 9
The message: As I walked around this sculpture I noticed that the inner part of it was missing. What I took from this piece is how some people fail to recognize the lack of important things in their life, and only worry about how people see them from the outside perspective and fail to recognize the bigger picture.
Pheles1991
Rafael Consuegra
Painted Steel
2 x 3 x 8
The message: What I obtained from this piece was an animal that belongs in the grass, some type of insect because of the balls that are part of the sculpture. I pictured insects running around the grass, as the sculpture also lays on a grassy area.
TorsoAlfredo Halequa
1961
Epoxy
The message: What I conveyed from this was ofcourse a torso. To be more exact, the torso of a woments body. Bodies come in all shapes and sizes and they are all different. I believe Halequa was trying to express the beauty in diversity.