Blaine De St. Croix

Blane De St. Croix was an interesting artists lecture that I attending last Tuesday. He is a sculptor and drawer. His works have to do with social issues in nature. For instance, he made an extremely large sculptor of the border fence between the United States and Mexico. He usually does a ton of research for each other his projects, and although he was told he couldn’t do research for this fence project he did. When he went to document to fence for recreation he tried to speak to anyone he could about it to get their opinions. Despite whatever view he might have had, he heard both sides of the story. I felt like his drawings were extremely outstanding. They were done so in such a way that parts of the drawings actually looked like photographs. I thought that they were great, although he kind of seems to view his drawings as a side project or something that he uses in the progress of his sculptures.

He spent a lot of time talking about a project he did in West Virginia about the coal mining industry and what it is doing to our beautiful mountains. I was personally interested in this because much of my family comes from Virginia and Tennessee where coal mining is also popular. My grandfather used to be a coal miner, but he was from the era when they still did it underground. Blaine spoke about coal mining that literally takes the tops of mountains right off. It is very sad. His sculptor of the upside down mountain was great.

Everything he makes, he makes exactly as it looks in real life, only miniature. He has an extraordinary eye for detail. Although it was not as funny or entertaining as the last artists lecture I went to, I enjoyed it equally because he was very sincere and passionate.