HP: Found art in NOLA
Source: HuffingtonPost.com
A fascinating piece on artist Vicki Niolet:
Today I celebrate the gift of artists, like WALL-E, who lovingly reclaim pieces of a cities long torn asunder. Such is the work produced by the hands and heart of Vicki Niolet.
Using found objects and re-crafting bits and pieces of this and that, Niolet makes what she terms "repositories" for various memories, events, people, and places in her life. These three-dimensional sculptures are crafted in wooden boxes and take various shapes and forms, while producing even more varied sounds and reactions. More recently, after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Niolet's boxes have taken on more meaning as she assembled "High Water Mark" from literal pieces of her neighborhood after the storm. As a reliquary, these boxes preserve memory and imbue the found objects which might otherwise be considered devastating, with beauty and hope.
