Caitlin Carrington
First Impressions
September 4, 2010
ART 160
Micaela Rubalcava’s “Balanese Dancer” was absolutely beautiful! Created with tossed out rubbish from her work and materials found at home, it’s elegance and simplicity were stunning. Using old papers from TMCC, a screen from her window, and other materials, she created an elegant piece that shows you can create art using “trash.” Not only was her art work environmentally friendly, it was also economy friendly. She did not have to purchase materials to create her idea, but rather her idea formed around already abundant materials. The pattern in which she placed the pressed paper figures was also what attracted me to her work. It was like a big pressed paper kaleidoscope with a few gold dancers glittering in the light and catching my attention. To transform the old into something new is and idea that everyone can understand, it’s recycling. In a way, it also reminds me of life and death and how when things die, they become food for new creatures or soil for new plants. Taking the old and making it into the new. Recycling is the way of the world, and her art is and example of that.
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