Canadian artist uses LEGO pieces to create impressive artworks

The Canadian artist uses LEGO pieces to create vibrant works, intuitively built, that mix color, movement, and light.

Artist Katherine Duclos, from Vancouver, Canada, uses LEGO pieces to create vibrant works, intuitively built, that mix color, movement, and light.

With only the colors she plans to use in mind, Duclos arranges the modular blocks one by one, and the repetitive process slowly forms dense compositions that organize chaos into color.

Duclos, who is on the autism spectrum, has difficulty with spatial processing and image rotation, so the diagrams and instructions that come with traditional LEGO kits were never fun for her.

But when her son showed her a series of blocks put together in colors he thought she would like, the artist found new inspiration for her art in the LEGO pieces.

Without direction, Duclos uses groups of blocks hanging in any direction and transforms the rigid nature of plastic into works full of movement and floating.

“I never liked LEGO until my 5-year-old son handed me four flat pieces glued together and said, ‘I thought you’d like these colors next to each other.’ That was my lightbulb moment,” she told Colossal, an art-focused website.

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