Sarah Sze likes the idea of trying to make people slow down and actually look at something. Sze tries to make that idea into a reality through her works of art, which are made up of everyday objects such as lamps, shoes, house plants, rocks, fabric, and a whole lot more.
Sze's sculptural pieces and public works are often inspired by nature. In fact, some of her works serve a dual purpose as art and as animal habitats. Sze is also interested in how a space can be used and how spaces can be formed by her pieces. She wants her viewers to be able to walk into her works and experience art in a whole new way.
Sze focuses a lot on the different positive and negative spaces her art work can create. She also tries to make her pieces transition from exterior space (when you're looking at her work) into interior space (when you're in her works). Perspective plays a part in her pieces as well such as when she constructed a sculpture completely in one-point perspective.
Sze doesn't believe art is as interesting when it is obviously presented for everyone to see. That's why she kind of hides her art so that people would ask the question: "What is this?" Sze believes, in her own words, that the "most interesting art always has that question in it."
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"Sarah Sze." Art21. PBS, n.d. Web. 2 Apr. 2014.
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