Shadow

Artist: Rook Floro
Title: Shadow
Media: Glue gun, chair, mannequin, Black paint
Dimensions: Life size
Date: 2011

 Biographical Information On the Artist:
  Rook Floro is an artist from Bangkok, Thailand, and currently lives in Birmingham, England. His art investigates ideas of the tension between desiring change and appreciating oneself. Floro believes that advertisements, media, and social networking, friends, as well as our friends and family, all drive us to seek impossible perfection. He has received awards like the UK Young Artists, World Event Young Artist 2 award.

 Artist Statement:  
 “My sculpture/performance piece is inspired by Carl Jung’s psychological theory about the shadow. It concerns with the repressed ideas, weakness, and desires of oneself that the conscious mind refuses to acknowledge.  It represents my ‘shadow’ which involves my hidden desires to be different and become perfect in my own right. We always feel the pressure to be perfect by everything around us such as the media, social network, advertisement, friends, and family.”

Background Information: The sculpture was made using a hot glue gun and a mannequin to create the work. Then the artist paints the parts of his work, black, and sets them up in the placement seen above.

How It Relates to the Theme: The work demonstrates landscape of the mind, by demonstrating how the shadow represents our mind without “the pressure to perfect ourselves.”