Here at Boston College we don't run into too many dramatic artistic statements. I don't know, that's just not really our thing. Liz Stapleton, A&S '08, seems to think otherwise.
Yesterday, you may have noticed a young woman outside of the bookstore, comfortably sitting cross-legged in an igloo-shaped, copper cage. If you did, and if you didn't, that girl was Liz Stapleton, a studio art major and an avid member of the BC fine arts community.
For her sculpture class, and in association with a new course in fine arts called "Hot Off the Shelf," Stapleton was assigned to lead an independent study throughout the semester. So, she spent the last few months constructing a small, personal-sized cage made out of large copper rings.
As for her decision to dwell inside the cage in a highly-trafficked spot on campus, she said the enclosure represented the pressure she felt when given the lofty assignment. In response to this pressure, she invited student passers-by to toss slips of paper with their own fears and pressures into the cage. Her goal ultimately is to compile these physical symbols and burn them, sending them off and far away from their victims.
When asked, "what happens when you have to pee?" Stapleton gleefully responded, "I'm not in there for that long…this isn't like a hunger strike."
Well thank goodness for that, but applause all around for Stapleton, for sticking her artistic neck out and spicing things up at a sometimes bland college campus.
