Cornelia Parker mainly uses materials that are used everyday like silver and wood. However, her work named 30 pieces of silver comments on how the elite are the only ones available to have this luxury, I think. I believe that her main focus in her artwork is meant to make you think about things that you use everyday and how beautiful or repulsive they are in their own sense. She makes pieces in a way that make you question why things are the way they are, and how come we accept that instead of trying to make each task unique to the individual. She loves it when you don't know why she used the materials that she did and when you question why she put them in the order or fashion that she did. She like to make you think outside of the everyday norm by saying, yes, these are plates and silverware and searing items, but now they have no use, are they still truly beautiful in today's society? I think she states it best when she says, "I resurrect things that have been killed off... My work is all about the potential of materials - even when it looks like they've lost all possibilities."
Tara Donovan's main medium is things that can be discarded or thrown away after you use them for their main purpose. As in this piece, Plastic Cups, she uses hundreds, if not millions of plastic cups that have been stacked at different heights to create the look of a mountain scape or of an ocean. She also uses paper plates and Styrofoam cups to make large hanging spheres that can be lit up, or just hang as they are. I think that artists like her are truly inspirational because they value the things that are thrown away. They make these things that are not meant to be reused or to sustain for long periods of time into beautiful pieces of artwork that may take away from the original meaning, but really adds another dimension to the materials identity. When making her pieces it is almost as if she asks the material, "What do you dream of becoming?" and then makes their deepest wishes into reality. She gives them a breath of fresh air, if you will, and releases them from their original meaning of life.
Dominic Wilcox is one of today's most contemporary artists in the fact that he makes beautiful masterpieces out of random and unused junk. Like this piece here, all that this piece consists of is plastic toy solider men that, without a doubt, almost every little boy used to play with. However, he has brought the forgotten pieces out of the closet and into the mainstream by melting them in a unique way so that, even though they are now useless, they are beautiful. His main focus on pieces like this is to remind people of what they have given up to get where they are today. He wants you to think about how these things constructed who you are, and when given a new meaning, if they still are as productive in shaping people as he was productive in shaping this bowl. His work is very nostalgic and sentimental to some, and extremely random to others, however it seems that he is really well liked because of these facts." I believe that some things can only be discovered by getting your hands dirty and just doing it" - Dominic Wilcox.
Livia Marin's main fascination in her art is with everyday objects. She likes to deal with the idea of repetition most of all in her work as well as the extraction of what is familiar to the viewers, but then change it in a way that is unexpected. She is very interested in the traces of humanity in everyday object and then tries to bring them forward in her art. She says, "These traces embrace both their processes of making or construction and the daily use-relationship we establish with them." I think that this is very true as you can see in her piece here with all of the lipsticks. I think that this piece captures her ideas well because they are each different, different colors, different shapes, different heights, but in the end they are each unique, just as every person is unique, but they are all just lipsticks when the day is all over and done with. I think that her pieces mainly reflect on just how special humanity is and the fact that we need everyone, just the way they are, to make the world go round.
Rebecca Horn's work mostly hinges on the space it is displayed in. She uses the space as a stage for her pieces and forces your attention to them building them in a very specific way. Her main objective in her works are mainly to get you to think about life and the way that we live it, and why we live it that way. She examines the past and the present and how our customs today have evolved. She loves the idea of playing with the mind and telling you that impossible things are truly possible. She shifts the meaning of the pieces and makes them look as if they have really become something else. As for this piano, she forces you to look up, and at any given moment the piano will open up, the keys will drop out, and the strings will make an awful sound that forces you to look at it. Then, it will close back up until its next "explosion". She makes you wonder about this piece, as well as some of her others, just why she did what she did, and that is exactly what she wants.
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