Extra Credit

http://kevinfrancisgray.com/works.html

I took a look through his profile and went through the photos of his sculptures. Honestly, most of them have this kind of central theme of their faces being covered or restricted by something. To me, that represents that there are things stifling and repressing us and our visceral senses. The face covered, takes out your sight (perception, way of viewing things), your hearing (being able to truly listen), and your mouth's mobility or even sense to taste (you cannot open your mouth to speak freely, you cannot truly taste the world around you). The colors he tends to pick are very rich and traditional to sculptures (brilliant golds, onyx, marble white, and a resounding gray). The sculptures are typically people (being restricted in some way) and his initial style is resembling that of some more classical sculptors (personally) like Da Vinci (I saw resemblance to Da Vinci's David in the structure and features of his people). These works of art typically arise this feeling of intrigue in me at first, until I delve a little further into what they could truly mean and represent with their brilliance (most notably, the gold ones). Then, they begin to invoke anger and passion (from the synopsis that they represent people being oppressed) or sadness at the same synopsis. All in all, they are visually stunning pieces that really get you thinking and I wish I could know the true meaning of the art and not just my own guess at it and my own feelings.