SHANNON FARNAN'S

        Growing up with a twin is different in a countless amount of ways and I was lucky enough to experience it. There is a special relationship between twins that can only be felt by each twin. These sculptures use negative space, color and balance to depict the growth and change of emotions as we grew up together. As time goes by we change and evolve side by side interacting differently knowing each other's flaws and strength, and manipulating them to help support or fight each other.

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         This collection of pieces vary from wall pieces to free-standing sculpture. In these pieces I wanted to explain mine and my sister's complex relationship. First by creating an enclosed transparent space resembling a womb and building these geometric hexagons to represent the strongest chemical bond, I displayed my sister and I’s connection at an underdeveloped stage (1). The sculpture's colors and forms are similar to start and begin to differentiate as they advance to express our unique progression as we begin to find out who we are as individuals (3,4). We support each other when we are weak as triangles do when holding up structures absorbing the pressure of other structures (5). Like all siblings that fight we become highly aware of our strengths and weaknesses and or qualities we lack that the other may have (5,6).  (10). Finally using the idea of wind carrying petals away I created an abstract sculpture of  my sister and I taking on the world on our own (finger prints on petals) while still coming from the same home/ flower we are now drifting and writing our own future(12).