Forming Light: Sculpture Installation by Sophia Dixon

Today I visited a sculpture installation by one of our very own CSU art students Sophia Dixon. This installation is up in the mini gallery in the visual arts building and can be seen October 1-5. There are 2 doors entering this gallery. Walk in one and you are immediately stuck and have nowhere to go , but enter in the other door and you can walk through this sort of maze of hanging fishing line that shimmers reflecting light being cast up from below. One student said "This makes me feel dizzy, I see a billion tiny lines and the blurry light reflecting on them like the gut of a luminescent, musically inclined jellyfish. Where does this insanely tidy spiderweb end? Why does it hurt my eyes?"-Mike. The reflections Mike is talking about here make me feel relaxed and almost put me in a dazed day dreaming state of mind. Now if the artist could just add soft sounding nature music to this piece I think it would make it all the better, but I was happy with it overall. Sophia Dixon, the artist, estimated the number of nails she used to be approximately 24,384, and the number of actual yards of fishing line used is 28,000 yards. Wow! she could have caught a lot of fish but I think she put it to better use.