Artist Willie Cole is one of the most creative contemporary sculptors around (see his chess board later in this post). This series of guitar based works is a perfect example. (above: Dial a Tune)
For his solo show No Strings, he used guitars from Yamaha’s recycling program to create anthropomorphic creatures and abstracted figures from their parts.
The pieces are expressive and tied to the endurance of America’s past, particularly drawing a connection between the guitar’s shape and the yokes forced on people who were enslaved – Willie Cole
Here is the chess board from a few years back.
Willie Cole’s website, here.
His works for Yamaha, here.
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Glad that the guitars come from Yamaha’s recycling program. As a player I hate to think of a playable guitar being cut up that way.
That’s exactly what I thought when I first noticed these works. I so agree!