Flour Bed

Notice: Flour Bed will be located at Brookeville Gardens in 2013. Until then, it may be viewed at Fife City Hall.

Initially the artist used the bed form to experiment with new materials. With each new bed, she came to terms with the materials and learned from them. Her goal for the series is to ponder puns, associations, and memory. The Bed facilitates exploration, biography, and variety because it is a symbol and a place charged with personal meaning Flour Bed has multiple meanings. It may be a worrisome list of things to be done or aspirations of what one wishes to do. It may be all the good things about life: peace, home, children, and the worthiness of the everyday -embossed on a bed like a celebratory cake. She originally composed this list to tell herself not to panic about the financial crisis in the summer of 2008. She wrote this list in her journal when gas prices were rising along with food prices and widespread fear, a long list of “normal things”, i.e.: bring home flowers, swim, call the kids for breakfast, and so on. For some viewers, it may seem to be those to-do lists that keep you awake at night. For her, the list describes soothing, yeasty, everyday LIFE.

Location: Fife City Hall- 5411 23rd Street East

About the Artist- Sara Ybarra Lopez

As a child I believed that I would be a celebrated writer and poet. Eventually, I studied to be a schoolteacher at the University of Utah and Westminster College in Salt Lake City, while also taking excessive art classes, lingering in the ceramic studio, working as a model for art classes and as an assistant for the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. When I became a mother to first a daughter and then a son, it was ten years before I put my hands to clay again. My sculpture articulates the meeting of story and form and is often influenced by the drawings of children and the humorous turn of a phrase. Recently a graduate again with a Master's of Fine Arts degree from Goddard College, I was forced to do the nearly impossible: explain my art practice. A holistic insight came to me regarding the volition of what I do and study. My work considers fleeting events-dreams, phases of life, emotion, politics, a child's scribble- and enfolds them within a durable medium. I do this out of respect for a gracious commonality within this mysterious and enchanting universe.

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