Scream

LEGO Elements

30”x6”x21”

Scream explores raw human emotion through form and repetition. Built from nearly 20,000 identical 1x2 orange plates, the sculpture depicts half of a human face emerging from a prism, its mouth stretched in an anguished scream.

The piece conveys pure frustration, a response to the earlier work Impossible. The distortion of the mouth shows how tension can transform expression, while the simplicity of the bricks demonstrates how complexity and depth can arise from the most basic elements.

Orange Stacks, a digital photograph from the Macro Works in Color series, was created from a detail shot that focused on the exaggerated open mouth of Scream. It can be viewed in full size here.