Sasha Lute, Student Work

I was inspired by the fantasy we can create when interacting with miniatures and how these perceptions shift to a larger scale in our own homes. I placed a dollhouse I built between my home and my neighbors home to suggest ideas about space and place. The shadows casting from the light inside the dollhouse onto the neighboring houses pushes this idea even further, by projecting its falseness onto others. 

Hannah Laakso, Student Work

Grass Glass

Glass panes on grass

Appx. 3' x 11" Next to San Sebastion River, St. Augustine, FL

For this piece, I was interested in the industrial framing, flattening or displaying of nature, and the reflections from the glass. I enjoy the one where you can see the building in the glass, as it juxtaposes the natural with the unnatural.

Joe Joe Provenza, Student Work

One of the main themes of this piece is altering expendable objects that don't ever seem to change. I picked two bricks that live outside of the art building at Flagler. These bricks would be easy to replace but they have been in the same place since I remember.

Milk is a metaphor commonly used in my work as a symbol of cultural lust and the extraction of consciousness. The idea of milk teeth revolves around a certain conditioning to this lust for insignificance, almost showing a reversion to Freud's oral psychosexual phase in which one only has the mental capability to worry about themselves.

The white lighter was a found object which has an eerie cultural significance and also symbolizes man's greatest innovations reduced to an expendable plastic object.

Jake Carlson, Student Work

Artificial Roses

Three foot tall sculpture placed in ground at Palm Garden on Flagler Campus.

Jake Carlson, Student Work

Video Link:

https://youtu.be/fpzPfM8C0b0https://youtu.be/fpzPfM8C0b0

N.O.W.
This performance questions the identity of figures made into statues, while paying a respect to them in a way to create meaning. Across the country we see statues of typically the upper class bureaucrat, standing on land that was once utilized by Native American tribes. It is site specific in the sense that it took place at the statute of Pedro Melendez in St. Augustine, however it uses this site to steer the viewer of questioning the identity of statutes around them. The idea of brushing off the shoes of this statute enhances the power that this figure had and continues to evoke. History books recite a narrative that sites such as Mount Rushmore are iconic landmarks in America, however they are carved into sacred land once belonged to native tribes. As a student in 2017, this performance illustrates the idea of contemporary power. The power of institutions, wealth and corporations. The power of establishing identity only for the profit of one’s self. Earning respect in our current landscape is based off of a value system that has been corrupted. Statues are permanent, worshipped symbols of power. Who was powerful, who gained respect, and who established their power. This performance questions the burdened respect that statues demand. ​

Liz Burris, Student Work

Dimensions & Materials : (5) 18"x12" Foam Blocks, Acrylic Paint

Site: Trump International Golf Club, West Palm Beach, Florida

Artist Statement:

As an artist I feel it is important to have a voice.

I was motivated by Donald Trump's 2018 Budget Plan and my personal stance against it. For this piece I created five tombstones, made from foam blocks and painted them with acrylic paint. The five tombstones represent the death of just a few of the important programs and organizations Trump plans to completely eliminate next year; The National Endowment for The Arts, The National Endowment of Humanities, The United States Institute of Peace, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and The Global Climate Change Initiative.

The money, taken from decreased funding and the totally eliminated programs (approximately $54 billion) will, according to the budget, be put towards our massive military, bringing its total budget up to a whopping $654 billion. With this budget increase, the United States' military budget alone will equal the size of the next eight largest military budgets around the world combined. I felt it was important to bring these tombstones to one of the places Trump has frequently visited during his time as President, the Trump International Golf Club located in West Palm Beach, Florida.