Saturday, July 12, 2008
slideshow
So I tried to take better photos of the box things I've been making. Then I put some of them together as a slide show.
I'm calling them tree/houses, because of the branches and boxes, but they are more about the associations of the things assembled, probably. There are a few puns built in, like the chicken and the eggs, a boxer with just one arm, the printed "fragile" on one of the panels with a hole and a branch shoved through it, the candy like an offering to the art gods, etc.
The music is Kaki King.
Monday, July 7, 2008
Defending your art
I'm trying to explain the boxes (in the last post) to some people. I can't find anything to point to that looks like these things, except that
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Tree/Houses
I made some things that are kind of like sculpture. There are really five different pieces here and they are designed to be looked at from all sides. But there isn't a place big enough to show them properly in the house. And they are kind of hard to move around. Ingredients are cardboard boxes, gesso, acrylic paint, wire, clay, candy, antique dishes, pecan branches, costume jewelery, cork, glass, fabric, ribbon, plastic knife, and knick-knacks.
There is a sixth that I didn't photograph, which involves putting a large branch in one of those hispanic votive candles that you buy when you're praying for something in particular (in this case, a better job) and filling all the gaps in the branch with used nicorette gum. It's not made out of a box, though, so I didn't include it. It is the beginning of what I will do with all these hundreds of used pieces of nicorette gum.......