Catherine Hite

i have three nuts:
heaviness/weighed down
lightness
and the transistion between these two things

i brainstormed about heavy and light things then went to tutto a 99cent and bought a bunch of random stuff. from here i played around with materials and came up with ideas for two of my nuts.
i bought fake apples and hollowed them out. then i filled them with metal nuts and plaster, wood chips, or sand so that they each have a different weight. it was quite an intersting experience going to the hardware store and trying to buy the nuts because i stil have no idea what they are called in italian and the men kept wanting to know what function i needed them for and it was well quite an interesting time.
for my second nut i am thinking about creating hand weights out of light materials. this would be for the lightness nuts so i guess perhaps an underlying thought is tricking the viewer or rather challenging their notion of what ought to heavy vs light.

-catherine