Aurora Robson
Aurora Robson, The Fontanel; made from plastic recycled bottles)
Aurora Robson transforms the negative into positive: thoughts, energy, matter. This Brooklyn-based artist defines herself as an eco-activist, rescuing plastic bottles from landfills. She is conscious of the large amounts of plastic bottles used and sent to the trash, as we are mostly unconscious of the hundreds or maybe thousands of years it would take the environment to degrade just one of them. Her source of inspiration for the beautiful shapes she creates are images she had seen in her nightmares as a child. She integrates the two experiences (her unpleasant dreams and the plastic trash that surrounds us) and transfigures both to conceive pleasant sculptures.
The lines and forms with organic flow, in almost chaotic compositions and the effects of color and light are the most important elements in her work. It is amazing to see sculptures that at first glance would never be associated with mundane objects as simple as water bottles.
by: Ada Cintrón-Cintrón