Austin is a great niche for many artists. This is so because you can tap into something weird without any fear of embarrassment or ridicule. If you expect that your odd artwork will be ostracized and laughed at, the opposite is actually what’s going to happen. Residents of Austin embrace everything that’s unique and extraordinary. This is what they do to live up to their unofficial motto of Keep Austin Weird.
One of the unique artists that can be found in Austin is Donna Pardue. She is into sculpture but there’s a twist to the medium she uses. Commonly, people would carve out and produce artworks from wood or stone. In her case, though, she’s producing incredible sculptural pieces out of apples.
When freshly-made, her sculptures would give out that fine and translucent appearance. But knowing how apples are, eventually, they oxidize and take on a brown, bruised and wrinkly appearance. Nevertheless, they can be preserved and dried and can have that antique-like, leathery feel to them.
Some of Donna Pardue’s amazing apple sculptures include a collection of sculpted ears, which she called “The Ears of Sundry Gods” and “The Bound Foot”, which showed half of the foot including the toes. Noticeably, the subjects of her apple sculptures involve human body parts. Her “Adam Ate Most of It” piece featured a torso of a woman and her “A Hunger Artist” showed a decapitated figure assuming a meditative position.
Pardue also has an impressive series of hand sculptures using apples. There’s a hand that seemed to hold an eye. There’s also one assuming a Hook’em Horns hand signal. Another fascinating creation resembles the Pope’s benediction sign.
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