Sheridan O'Neal submits Nicola Constantino
Constantino creates compostions with dead animals. She mainly works in sculpture using silicon, polyester, and resin to make casts of the animals. The art is usually composed of wild or farm animals such as chickens, hogs, calfs, colts, pigs, etc. Her sculptures are amazing and explore the relationship between these animals and humans and she also explores how the repeating a cast and how composing them allows the animals or animal parts to interact with one another. Her photography has aspects of her sculpture works in some of the images. However, a lot of her photography is a play off of classical artworks such as Velazquez's "Las Meninas" and Vermeer's work as well. Even though her photographs comment on classical works of art, they are all intriguing and offer a new perspective or thought on an old composition or idea. She is also the main subject in nearly every photograph. I appreciate her photography that relates to her sculpture because it portrays more of her outlook and her interests such as in "Butterfly Queen". All of her photography tell a narrative as well either by showing a glimpse of a scene or by the feelings they evoke. Altogether she is a very interesting artist.
