Derek Webster
Dimensions: 5' x 2' x 4'
Location: Roe Blvd South of 55th Street - center median (#4 Map)
Ponder
During my last two years of KCAI, I made an effort, during independent
projects, to study, learn and return to a traditional, if not fading
medium, craft, trade, skill, and profession.
Stone carving is an ancient, even primitive, outlet for creation.
It has always stood the test of time through almost every culture
involved with it. There has always been an inherent appreciation
for stone, from counter tops to the pyramids.
My imagery and content are usually meant to appeal to the "counter
culture" styles of graffiti, comics, and other stylized representational
work (not abstract nor realistic), figurative often, almost as if it is
a suggestion of a state of mind, visually, metaphorically, and
symbolically. In this case it visually depicts a state of
pondering, confusion, and questioning. Metaphorically, its unrefined
quality could suggest an incomplete person, or one who is not whole in
the state of uncertainty. And symbolically, I find it as an
acknowledgement of confusion within the American counter culture, by one
of its own, expressed through a medium respected by many cultures
universally.
Bio
Bio
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I am Derek Webster, born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri and am a recent graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute (winter 08), who has carved stone for the past two and a half years. I have shown though all the shows provided by the Sculpture Department and am now looking to resource the community as an outlet to exhibit work. I have stayed in Kansas City due to what I believe is a great location for the art world to grow and flourish.