So, I was trying to figure out how to have text floating inside translucent fabric trees when I started making these wire sculptures. The words I chose to juxtapose the elements of nature with the elements of humanity. It's all the same to me: pajamas...lichen, wind...laughter.
None of them really looked that good inside the fabric but I was pretty enamored with them. These are a few close-ups of one that I played with in Irafanview, which is a free photo editing software. It isn't photoshop, that's for sure, but who can afford Photoshop upon graduating?
I think if I were a photographer I would make things just to photograph them...the close-ups are way more interesting than the sculptures themselves.
Anyway, I tore my achilles before I could figure out the tree sculptures and haven't gotten back to it.
So this is a rough draft of the installation I am working on right now. I am doing everything backward and it is taking way longer than it needs to which is why this picture is taken in the dark. Eventually it should read as one line of text.
This was my attempt to figure out what size text each tree needed to make the words appear to be the same size from one viewing spot. The "was" is a test.
Having a studio has inspired an obsession with tacking things on the wall and I am a little enamoured with it as a collage.
I am enamoured with other people's studios as well. This is Erica Warren's.
And this is Erica painting, she has to wear headphones or I will talk her ear off.
So after many experiments and many failures I finally settled on Acetate for my outdoor installation. I am going to do several more in this grove. I wish I could get a better picture of how they all look together because its pretty cool. My classmates mentioned that they look like webs from far away or soap bubbles that got caught. I like that but I prefer them when I am at an angle where there is no glare and there is just text floating through the trees.
