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....................cleveland art sculpture.....................

September 05th, 2013

9/5/2013

 
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 The sandwich speaks for itself:
 
"It's not often a sculpture is forced to plead its own case. Coming out of the Humez studio,  I should have known she'd make me talk. That's just how it is. Once this dame is finished with you, she hangs you out to dry." 

"Before I knew what hit me, I was caught up in the system and now my mug is public.  These guys took away my name and gave me a voting number instead." 

"Gluttony.  That's me.  And  I'm locked up at Summit Artspace Gallery waiting for your vote and a reprieve."

(As it turned out, thanks to all of you who voted in my favor, this work finished 8th out of a field of 125.  Keep your eye peeled to see it soon, for the first time in the Greater Cleveland area.)

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(The process: Read all about it below.)                           



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       Make Me One      With Everything
       
       (formerly called
    Gluttony and Sandwich Me In)

    by Leslie Edwards Humez

    See the sculpture's progress to the left.  If you'd rather not dig in deep for details, skim the page for a pix preview. 

    Here's the surreal, stacked    sandwich sculpture that you  helped to create by  suggesting components!
    It was imagined to be a jam-packed over-the-top representation of reality.  Only upon closer inspection will unexpected ingredients and the oddities of this curious 16" assemblage become apparent. 


    The Backstory
    The project took form when a couple ideas merged. 

    Apparently, depending on where you live, you either say sandwich me in or shoehorn me in to get an appointment. 

    Thanks to a hunger for
    horror flicks, sci-fi, and old comics like Dagwood and Mad Magazine, the  Sandwich Me In concept slithered out from under the bed and lured me with a crooked finger toward a gruesome and macabre mental picture of artistic gluttony.

    About the same time, the comic sandwich of Chic Young's long-lived funnies strip  waltzed in and suddenly, things came together.  The sandwiching of me into an over-sized Dagwood was too tantalizing...just too surreal to resist.

    King Features Syndicate cartoonist  Chic Young once said that he found the magic formula for creating a comic strip with which millions could identify— he simply restricted his premises to eating, sleeping, going to work and raising a family.  Blondie  began in 1930 and is still widely syndicated.

    What worked for Chick Young might just work for me in Akron.

    We'll see.    LEH 5.23.13