I am a multidisciplinary artist, with a background in photography but a passion spanning many media! I generally am painting or taking photos, but recently I had an impulse to begin crafting sculptures with pipe cleaners. I've gotten mixed reactions to this choice of medium; some people seem confused why I'd pick it, while others enjoy the playfulness of the material. Perhaps it's my inner child speaking, but the fuzziness, bright colors, and malleability of the pipe cleaners has felt like a really natural way for me to dip my toes into the 3d waters. Break a Wave is currently my most time-invested piece, but I plan to create more works with this sense of whimsy and playfulness in the future. With this piece in particular, I used colored beads and scattered colored/metallic pipe cleaners to represent the infinite prisms and colors we often see glittering about in the ocean. I aimed to capture a sense of movement in the water with curved, less interrupted lines, while also bending and waving curves throughout everything to show the inner currents of the wave. Of course, you may have guessed this piece is also heavily influenced by Hokusai's The Great Wave, which has hung in my parents home ever since I can remember.