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Title: Ignis Terminatorix - (Fire Terminator)
16.5x22x13in.
This artwork was created during the devastating fires of August 2021, including the Dixie Fire, McFarland Fire, and Caldor Fire.
At the time, I was processing and trying to understand the destruction happening on our planet.
Fire is definitely not my element; it makes me uncomfortable, period.
The raging forest fires threw me off balance with the immense loss humanity is enduring and the devastation of Nature.
This creation became my way of seeking understanding and attempting to transcend something I couldn’t change.
Hence the name Ignis Terminatorix—“fire terminator”, a cathartic solution for a situation I had no power to alter: a sci-fi robot which would help to exterminate these fires.
It was not an easy process. While creating this piece was fun, it was also painful.
It hurt.
With the Los Angeles fires happening now, this artwork serves as a reminder that the issue is far from resolved—and is, in fact, worse than we could have imagined.
About the process, working with plastics has its own challenges. The black part - the support - is a part of a Bose audio system, the orange mold came inside an IKEA toolbox, the yellow shapes are from Wixela asthma inhaler.
Buttons, beads and a monitor support on the back, as the umbrella.
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