Snow Globes

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

It would be impossible for me to go to that gallery showing and not shake all of them. Very cool find, A!

I was wondering about that. You don't really get the full effect without being able to see the insides stirred up, and yet I'm sure you're not allowed to touch them. I wonder if that is something the artists take into consideration. They are making objects that are meant to be handled, but as sculptures in a gallery we understand we're not supposed to touch them.

A sculpture teacher I had in college made a giant wooden ball and covered it with iron handles. The desire to touch it, climb it, was strong in most viewers, but you weren't supposed to touch it. It actually angered him that some people would touch it, because there wasn't a sign that said not to and clearly it was an object intended for interaction. Seemed silly that he couldn't grasp that.

Also cool when something you make is not viewed as you intended, even if that's frustrating for some artists.