Sarah Braman is an artist widely recognized for her large-scale sculptures that serve as monuments to everyday life. Her work for Sculpture Milwaukee, Stay, is a custom concrete culvert equipped with benches for sitting, an open frame for looking out, and colored panes of glass for experiencing yourself and the surroundings in new ways. The colors of the glass, derived from sunsets, change as the sun’s angle shifts throughout the day and year. Always interested in the interplay between senses and emotions, Braman invites us to explore the feeling of being a color as tinted light pours over us. Though Braman’s work is rooted in the traditions of minimalism and color-field painting, she defies narrow modernist definitions by suggesting themes of home, family, nature, and joy.
Sarah Braman is an artist widely recognized for her large-scale sculptures that serve as monuments to everyday life. Her work for Sculpture Milwaukee, Stay, is a custom concrete culvert equipped with benches for sitting, an open frame for looking out, and colored panes of glass for experiencing yourself and the surroundings in new ways. The colors of the glass, derived from sunsets, change as the sun’s angle shifts throughout the day and year. Always interested in the interplay between senses and emotions, Braman invites us to explore the feeling of being a color as tinted light pours over us. Though Braman’s work is rooted in the traditions of minimalism and color-field painting, she defies narrow modernist definitions by suggesting themes of home, family, nature, and joy.
Social Choreography Score
by Kim Miller
Social Choreography Score
by Kim Miller
Move around the outside of the whole sculpture.
Once you've made a complete rotation, reverse directions and move around again this time moving your arms in circular motions and patterns.
After your second trip around the outside, make your way inside the sculpture continuing to make circular motions now with your whole body and not just your arms.
Make your way to the center of the inside of the sculpture.
Stop moving, face the colorful laminated glass and stand still with your arms by your side.
Take some deep breaths.
Select a color of glass, and start moving your body in a way you imagine that specific color would move.
After a couple minutes of this, incorporate the circular motions you explored earlier to come up with a set of movements that is color as circular form.
Make sure you are incorporating different body parts as well as levels (standing, kneeling, reaching etc.)
Slowly let yourself come back to stillness.
Find a spot to sit on the bench.
Take in and observe the view and the way the light flows both in and out of the sculpture.
Move around the outside of the whole sculpture.
Once you've made a complete rotation, reverse directions and move around again this time moving your arms in circular motions and patterns.
After your second trip around the outside, make your way inside the sculpture continuing to make circular motions now with your whole body and not just your arms.
Make your way to the center of the inside of the sculpture.
Stop moving, face the colorful laminated glass and stand still with your arms by your side.
Take some deep breaths.
Select a color of glass, and start moving your body in a way you imagine that specific color would move.
After a couple minutes of this, incorporate the circular motions you explored earlier to come up with a set of movements that is color as circular form.
Make sure you are incorporating different body parts as well as levels (standing, kneeling, reaching etc.)
Slowly let yourself come back to stillness.
Find a spot to sit on the bench.
Take in and observe the view and the way the light flows both in and out of the sculpture.
