Fluxus Box

 View 1 Closed Box

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View 3 Closed Box

View 4 Open

View 5 Open

View 5 Objects outside

Humanity, cardboard, lighting, paper, tissue, cloth, paint, spraypaint, clay, felt, feather, wire(18 x18)

In Process

Artist Statement:

This piece is complementary to humanity, and how we are constantly evolving. The first box shows a Kanji, a sign meaning origin in Japanese art.  This captures the idea that we start from nothing as people until born. The outside is a cityscape with electronics in it. We show our need to survive by always pushing forward, such as through AI. As we take off another layer, though, we find the truth of who we are. Cut-up vintage textiles show age on the inside. Flowers show how we all must die. The sculpture is a hand grabbing onto a peer from behind, holding a cigarette, showing humans' ablity to throw away love for vices. Another piece is a bear showing childhood, someplace we all must leave and return to. The note means things left unsaid, showing people will put aside dreams in order to find a false purpose. I designed the box to visibly show how at our core, no matter where we go, we share the same dna as those who learned to live before us. 

Research:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1085226841461601808/ textiles

https://www.artpal.com/beksinskistore?i=280272-61 city

https://www.homeaccentstoday.com/furniture-lighting-and-decor/using-led-light-create-artwork/

Artist Inspiration:

George Maciunas, Your Name spelled With Objects, c. 1972-1978, left to right: Kund Peterson, Ben Vaulter, George Brecht, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles. Courtesy The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Foundation.

source:

http://georgemaciunas.com/press/art-forum-fluxus-redux/

Notes: 

Movie: Blade Runner

I was inspired by the idea of texture. In the movie, they use futuristic imagery with 80s fashion. The director calls back inventions from the 60s to show disarray. A character has a lepord print coat with another print as a skirt. This inspired the inside of the box.

When making the box, I fused lights together to call back the city scapes. Banji is a symbol used in the movie. 

A final piece of imagery I saw and incorporated from the movie is the feeling of death vs life this is juxtaposed by the wildlife

Paper Cutting Sculpture

 Paper Cutting Sculpture

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OpenStory, paper, Mod Podge, and ink. (9.5 x3x7)

This sculpture is a reaction to both my artist's pieces. My mountain paper sculpture explores the relationship between landscape, fragility, and human work, drawing inspiration from the work of Adriane Colburn and Aymni Sibata. Like Colburn, whose intricate cut-paper installations show layered depictions of paper work. The paper medium shows how light objects can gain weight. I also drew from Sibata’s sensitivity to texture, materiality, and hand-constructed forms; her approach encouraged me to think about how each fold, cut, and contour can communicate movement within the landscape. Through combining these influences, my sculpture reflects the tension between permanence and impermanence in natural environments. I incorporated a Japanese Fable about a dying tree to show this concept, one shared with me by my grandmother 

Two Images that inspired work

Adriane Colburn

"My installations are extracted from the data, images and video I have collected while participating in scientific expeditions to remote, wild places such as the arctic and amazon. The work reflects on these far-flung environments and the overall state of nature in an age where few stones remain unturned by man. I am particularly interested in romanticized notions of wilderness, the alteration of nature by industry and climate change and the relationships between scientific exploration and exploitation. In participating in these expeditions and generating work from the aftermath, I am reckoning with how our thirst to understand and visualize a landscape can irrevocably disrupt it. " -quote about his work

https://foundations3ddesign.blogspot.com/2017/05/adriane-colburn-artist-based-in-san.html

Aymni Sibata, https://www.ayumishibata.com/blank-11

This work encapsulates the essence of finding your own journey. The artist layered a variety of works onto each other to create dimension. This in turn made a siloute of a landscape

In Process

Speaker Events

 

Speaker event 1: Tea Ceremony