Untitled 1962

This small, untitled sculpture was made by John Chamberlain, and it’s constructed from painted metal. It’s the kind of thing that makes you stop and think about what sculpture can be. Chamberlain took industrial scraps, the leftovers of our world, and turned them into something beautiful, or at least thought-provoking. Look at the way he crumpled and twisted the metal, like he was sketching in three dimensions. The colors are bold – oranges, blues, blacks – almost like a painter's palette gone wild. I am drawn to the sharp edges and unexpected curves. There’s a part of the piece where the orange paint is chipped away, revealing the raw metal underneath. It’s a reminder that art is not always about perfection, but about process, about revealing the layers of creation. It makes me think of artists like Kurt Schwitters, who also found beauty in the discarded and the overlooked. It’s like Chamberlain is saying, "Hey, even wreckage can be art." And I love that.