UNT Art Student’s Talent Takes Off at School’s Frisco Campus

University of North Texas sculptor Archit Karkare’s career is skyrocketing, and he hasn’t even graduated yet.

Carcare’s sculpture “Soaring” was chosen from a dozen entries. It hangs 10 feet above the floor at the UNT in Frisco Landing.

“Honestly, I was delighted,” Carcare said. “I can’t believe I got this, but it’s real!”

The design was the result of a class assignment.

“It wasn’t homework per se,” said Carcare. “We’ve been given complete creative freedom as to how we want to approach sculpture.”

Carcare worked with 23 Design Co. to make his idea a reality.

“Soar” is inspired by the indigenous people who once called the land where UNT takes place in Frisco home.

“It’s a design with three abstract eagle feathers that kind of swirl around each other,” said Carcare, adding that the inclusion was an important message to convey. “And that’s why the feathers intertwine and sort of spiral around each other.”

Inclusiveness was a message that touched the nerves of the Indian-born artist who moved to the US in high school.

“The fact that I belong to a different culture, but had to be kind of included in that culture,” Carcare said. So that’s what I was trying to convey.

“Soaring” changes depending on the perspective.

“So it expands as you go up the stairs,” Karkare explained. “But when you’re under the sculpture, it looks almost two-dimensional.”

Carcare is a 4th year arts student who will soon graduate, but his art will remain suspended in time.

“Maybe in 25, 30 years, if I go in, it will be, ‘Did I really do that?’ exclaimed Carcare. “It’s surreal, honestly!”

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