It looks like Fish

I have passed by this quite a few times since I've been on campus, and it’s always caught my eye. But until tonight I never truly looked at it. This sculpture is called “H2O: Liquid Zone” by Mikyoung Kim. If you've ever passed on the outside of Engleman Hall, you’ve probably seen this.  At first glance, this looks nothing like its title suggests, and it looks more like large leaves you’d find on trees in the rain-forest or fish. It seems to be made out of a steel or wire-like material that keeps it sturdy. I personally like this piece quite a bit. It makes you think because at first you aren’t even sure what you’re looking at. Depending on how you see it, you can interpret it in many different ways. Like I said, it could look like giant leaves in the rainforest, or possibly fish. I’m not entirely sure how the title of this came to be, in no way does it resemble water in any form. But I guess that’s the beauty of art, it doesn’t have to be correct. This sculpture could represent how much like water we are as people. Water has no definite shape or size, and neither do people. The randomness of how this piece is designed, it seems like it’s flowing and repeating itself. The pattern can go on forever. As a society, we do the same. Every day we live by a schedule of some sort and it repeats itself from day to day. Sure we may change location and direction, but we essentially are doing the same thing each day, just like water may flow from a stream into a lake, into some even larger body of water. It’s in constant motion, just like humans are. Since the title of this is “H2O: Liquid Zone”, it’s assumed that water is seen in its liquid state where it’s very amiable to any situation- just like we as humans are.