under construction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfef0Z9bBts

The word Structure in evident in the word conSTRUCTion.

A structure of something depends on the way things are made from a combination of elements whether they appear in the forms of lines drawn into a grid or three dimensional objects that combine to make a larger object.

Above is a video where two artists have chosen to CONSTRUCT a large round ball in the shape and image of a baseball from blown up balloons.

The sculpture becomes a performance piece as it is rolled round their local streets into a park where children continue to play with the sculpture; not in the way a baseball would usually be played with.

The result of this is that it bursts.

The balloons are set free from the constraints of the large material holding them together and they float around the park, trying to escape as people chase after them. When caught the balloons are popped until all is left are their deflated and broken plastic bodies lying all over the ground of the park.

The remains of the balloons still exist, the baseball does not. However the status of the balloons have changed by their deflation. When they were inflated it meant that they had morphed into something larger; now destroyed they can no longer be used.

The structure of the Baseball was destabilised which is strange as usually we see the idea of a structure as being strong and difficult to destroy.