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Show 6 THE SIGNPOST Wednesday, May 23, 1990 GLISPIN (continued from page 5) awarded the Dean's Purchase Award, which means the dean of arts and humanities, Sherwin Howard, buys a piece from the student art exhibit and puts it on display in his office in the Browning Center. Glispin has been interested in sculpturing for two years now. He likes sculpturing because "it's a direct means of expressing yourself," he said. He says he tries to concentrate on social, political and environmental themes. "I co:ne up with an idea and then go for the form." For one of his ideas, Glispin said, "I saw how people were reacting to those who are disabled. People look through the person and only see the chair." Glispin's 5LISP1NS "STOP THE Slaughter of African Elephants" shows the acf s Irreverance for life. sculpture of a wheelchair, which was awarded first place, is called "Out of Sight, Out of Mind." He decided not to use a real wheelchair since that would be too obvious, he said. Instead, he used bicycle rims for the chair and wood to construct a seated person. "I made the chair obnoxious and the person flat. Since I was thinking of Vietnam veterans, any veterans really, I also painted an American flag on the person's head." Another of his works, which won the Student's Art Guild first place award, is titled "Stop the Slaughter of Africa's Elephants." It depicts a baby's head with the skin pulled back from the skull, revealing the "exposed bone" in bronze, on which he wrote in Korean characters the title of the piece. Glispin said, "I was reading about African elephants and how they're getting killed for just a little piece of ivory, and most of the ivory gets shipped through Korea. So I wondered what would be the extreme opposite of that and came up with a baby's head as an ironic statement." The elephant's ivory is changed into little trinkets with carvings etched into the bone, he said, and he tried to show that same irreverence for the elephant's life by using a small child's head with letters drawn in the skull. Working in bronze is a long drawn out process involving nine different steps with plastic and wax, Glispin said, and the baby's head took most of a quarter to do, where the chair only took two days. Now he is working on an angel of Moroni made out of mini -bottles. "We were given an assignment to make a piece out of garbage. So I started thinking 'What is garbage,' and I came up with the new liquor laws. They're really ridiculous, like taking SUSAN SEIFiRT AND BRAD SCHROEDER star In a new Weber State play production this week. 'Enemy of the People' opens By Jana Doxey Asst. Arts editor of The Signpost Does a turn-of-the-century play have amessage for the audience of today? Brad Schroeder, currently performing in the Weber State production of "An Enemy of the People," believes it may. "The message may be even more timely today than it was back then," he said. The play deals with an environmental issue in a small Norwegian town. Schroeder plays Dr. Peter Stockmann, who discovers that the town's waters are contaminated and tries to warn the people that deaths will result unless the local bath houses are shut down. "He is a doctor of about 45 or 50, and (See ENEMY page 7) the Coors sign out of the Salt Palace which cost them a lot of money." He added that the Mormon influence had a lot to do with the new liquor laws. When he's done, the angel of Moroni will have a sash over her eyes and probably be called, "See No Evil, Do No Evil." Currently an art major, Glispin plans on going to graduate school. He would like to teach sculpturing at a school and that way he would be able to work on his own pieces. New Polymer Gel System Replaces Popular Acrylic Nail Treatments That Damage Natural Nails IIP I. :SSS:y Weak, brittle, slow-growing nails are being covered up with acrylics, silk wraps, press-ons, glues, powders, polishes and hardeners. But these "cover-ups" are expensive and time consuming, and the fact is that beneath it all, nails remain weak, brittle, and slow-growing, Many of the popular nail "cover-ups" actually damage natural nails further. Now, there is a revolutionary development that works with your natural nail to create healthy-nail glamour. Images new polymer substance can now be self-applied to strengthen and protect natural nails. ( The substance is similar to a polymer now being used in dental offices to seal and protect teeth. ) In a matter of minutes, you can apply the smooth and glossy polymer and bond it to the nail using a highly specialized bonding lamp. For more information regarding the Natural Elegance System, phone 801-731-6521. Business opportunities available |