Mutevoli

I finally decided to name my piece Mutevoli which means ever changing because I intentionally created the visual to constantly being drawing over itself as each consecutive person interacted with the piece. This represents how in life we as people are constantly growing and changing and our lives are constantly changing too.  I often fear to some extent and avoid to a large extent, change. And even in creating art I often do not push myself to explore far enough because I find one pattern or combination that I like so I stop so as to keep from ruining what I have achieved so far allowing fear of failure to keep me from possibly achieving something even better. So this piece for me was a piece that was built to change so that I could not control it. It was up to other people to continually recreate the piece. This also symbolized for me the degree to which other people's lives intertwine with your own and how other people can change your life even if do not intend for them to.

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." - Henri Bergson

Other people seemed to enjoy the piece at Vizagogo. Though it may not have had the same meaning for everyone as it did for me I enjoyed watching people happily interact with my piece. Children loved it and I was glad that it held up against their extreme interaction with it. One girl told me she found it very therapeutic while one woman asked me if I had patented it, and another woman even told me that she wanted one for her home.

Here are some videos of the piece in action: 
(Unfortunately, the embedding is not working today so I posted them on Youtube and have supplied the links here)

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MLvU9bpzxM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu9lyMZK9OQ&feature=youtu.be