Lily the Brine Shrimp
Lily the brine shrimp was made for the Tough Art Residency Program 2023, and is suspended in the main stairway, seen from the second floor, at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. Lily is made from thermally shaped recycled plastic and gears. A step pad on the second floor balcony makes the sixteen arms move
Lily the Brine Shrimp
Lily is in the shape of a brine shrimp, otherwise known as a sea monkey. Lily the sculpture is 720 times larger than a brine shrimp, normally the size of a grain of rice. Brine shrimps are unique because they live in salt lakes too toxic for most life, and they can produce eggs called cysts that can wait up to 25 years to hatch. When hatched, they have one “baby” eye in the middle of their head until the two flexible adult eyes come in on either side. I made Lily out of recycled plastic, the same plastic used for water bottles. If you step on the pink pad, you can make Lily’s 16 arms fly!
Artist Interview
An Artist Interview with Asia Ward about her inspiration and process for her sculpture Lily, made for the Tough Art Residency 2023 for the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
