Existing comment:
Fuel at last! Now we can turn for home.
Derek Goldsmith, 37, Artist/Designer
Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK
"I first went to art school in the late 1960s, when Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup can became an iconic image," says Derek Goldsmith. "Pop art and artists working with technology during this period influenced my own work, which has often taken the form of kinetic structures based around domestic themes. Four decades on, we are striving to create a new iconic can image with ‘Art of Can.'"
Goldsmith's entry comes to Washington all the way from the north of England, where locals have recently been mystified to see the artist repeatedly spraying water into the air. "My entry is a flight of fancy portraying three airborne flying saucers refueling with Red Bull while the precious fuel spurts from the ruptured can," he explains, noting that the water which baffled his neighbors was used as reference for the necessary liquid shapes. It's not the first time Goldsmith has played creatively with ideas. He once devised a wind-driven painting machine that dropped colors onto a rotating canvas depending upon wind direction. He's currently working on new painting machines; but in the meantime the artist hints, "I have just taken voluntary redundancy from my job as a graphic designer to look for more interesting projects to work on. All offers of work gratefully received!" |