Filipe Tohi "Hautahu" is a sculpture that is made out of steel poles and used as layers on top of each other and paralleled, forming a lax sculpture. "Hautahu" work is based on the Tongan traditional laxing. i really like this work cause of how Filipe Tohi has transformed his cultural traditional art into modern day art. The layers and three-dimentional view he has created with the steel poles has formed a shape of a diamond. The manipulation the viewers get when all the steel poles are parallel with each other in different direction gets viewers going in various directions. All steel poles from any position viewers look at the sculpture, all the poles are aligned in a 45 degree angle. The work is transparent and visually bright with its location where sunlight reflects, hits the sculpture. The sculpture has a shadow due to the sunlight and directions the sunlight comes from doesn't really change the shape of the shadow cause of the repetition and identical shape of the sculpture from different views. The sculpture makes me feel imprisoned cause of the steel poles shape and form, it creates a three-dimentional cage. The work relates to my studio work where the class have two-dimentional objects and drawings and create three-dimentional objects out of them.
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