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my name is Casey cook and I am an artist

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in the area 919 show at the National

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Museum the two sculptures that are out

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here are large cardboard sculptures

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originally I made these as maquettes for

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much larger sculptures that i want to

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make cardboard was an amazing material

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to work with I liked the idea that they

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were made out of boxes that had traveled

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somewhere that had a story but then was

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being made into a completely different

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thing that never existed before the

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shapes come from each other you can kind

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of see on some of the curves that maybe

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that piece was cut out of the other

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piece and then that left over negative

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space at the time became the shape for

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the next sculpture and I was really

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interested in these if you will feminine

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shapes I fell in love with the cardboard

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I fell in love with how I could make a

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drawing with a knife and cut out the

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shape really fast how the cardboard

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absorbs the paint and that's when I

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created the piece that's all the way

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inside the gallery mama bear baby bear

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which is not a sculpture as much as a

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painting on cardboard that's been cut

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out and then put back together I was

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flying in a tiny plane over islands like

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tiny tiny little planes and I loved that

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perspective of looking down and seeing

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these kind of like outlines of island

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shapes and I thought about what if there

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was a giant sculpture or piece I could

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make that fit into that landscape but

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that was made by human so I do consider

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some of the hourglass shape that could

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be definitely related to the human body

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for sure that was sort of a organic

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shape that it repeats and a lot of this

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body of work it also was sort of

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representing in my mind the reproductive

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system of the mama bear relating to the

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relationship of the mother and the child

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as animals and also humans I see it as

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if mama bear is protecting baby bear but

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if they're flipped around

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be that the mama bear is attacking the

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baby bear so there's definitely a story

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in a relationship there we're not sure

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if it's fear or if it's nurturing

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protecting so it's sort of open in that

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interpretation