Art as a Tool for Community Building
Draw To Art
His most famous works to date are towering sculptures of balloon animals; this one stands over ten ft tall, weighing in excess of a ton. According to the artist, its shiny exterior is meant to “manipulate and seduce” in distinction to the cheap rubber it imitates. This intention is duly carried out by the highly immaculate reflective materials that lures a viewer in so close that the overall composition fades and they’re left confronted with their own distorted and imperfect mirror picture. Jeff Koons derives inspiration from the role of fabric objects in our lives and the…