Art 108 Charles Ray

Charles Ray is an interesting sculptor who deals with alteration of objects. In many of his pieces he changes around either the size or the materials of everyday objects and makes them appear exact in every way to their real life contour parts. One of the best examples of an objects who's materials he changed was a firetruck. In the piece called firetruck he created a life size fire truck out of aluminum, fiberglass and plexiglass. Except for it looking slightly cartonish it does look like a real life firetruck. In another one of his pieces he alters the viewers perspective by presenting a nude family that are all the same size. This is very disorienting because the viewers minds automatically wants to make the children of the family smaller then the parents. It is also odd becasue one would not typically see the family together holding hands while nude. There are other sculptures that follow the same idea, altering the nude figure. In all Charles Ray is very strange in his art. For many is can be playful becasue of how it alters our perspective, for others it is a look at something that might be uncomfortable or distasteful. For whatever the reason Charles Ray is a very successful artist who has become very well know.