The sculpture we were assigned to react to was John Keppelman’s 1978 “Garapata”.  The sculpture is three aluminum sheets welded together and painted white.  He came to the decision of this shape after working with origami paper, forming shapes both consciously and unconsciously, which suggests it’s origami design.  The piece is labelled Garapata after a “dramatic California setting, a river and canyon which intersects with the Pacific Ocean which he knew in his youth” (Western Gallery).  He labelled this after he created it – because of the soaring motion of the piece.  It appears Garapata was created to be subjective, like the rest of John Keppelman’s works.

Resources:

Garapata – John Keppelman

Garapata – John Keppelman

Garapata – John Keppelman

http://www.johnkeppelman.com/Sculpture.html

http://www.johnkeppelman.com/Paintings.html

http://www.johnkeppelman.com/AboutContact.html

Garapata Plaque

Various Lecture notes

CREDITS:

Script by Eric Yeh

Narration by Jake Bottner

Edited and Directed by Felix Lyons

Research by Eric Yeh and Felix Lyons