Swing

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For this assignment I drew inspiration from a fable I remember fondly from my youth, Aesop’s  ‘The Lion and the Mouse’. In this fable, a mouse proves he is more worthy than he appears by chewing a lion free from a rope trap.

http://vimeo.com/52825999

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Jon Cuba:
(you should look at all his work though)

http://cargocollective.com/joncuba/787484

Louise Bourgeois used knotting in both her two dimensional and three dimensional work

Shinkichi Tajiri (b. 1923 in Netherlands)

• on wikipedia
• The Knot [1976]
• Friendship Knot

Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd (b. 1934 in Sweden)

• Non-violence (also on Google Image)

Eva Hesse (b. 1936 in Germany)

• Untitled (Rope Piece) [1970]

Nobuyoshi Araki (b. 1940 in Japan)

• works on ArtNet

Marina Abramović (b. 1946 in Serbia)

• Relation in Time [1977/2010]

Michael Beitz (b. 19xx in xx)

• Knot [19xx]

Adel Abdessemed (b. 1971 in Constantine, Algeria)

• Telle mère tel fils [2008]

Paul Loebach (b. 1972 in Germany)

• Watson [2011]

Since this week is about knot making, I thought it would be nice to share an artist who works with pins and threads, Debbie Smith. Her work is entirely made up of these two materials, creating a big-scale scenery. The treatment and exhibition of the media change our perception of the materials as more artful forms.

Knot-making references

• http://www.animatedknots.com/
• iPhone app: Grog Knotts

Here are images of the process and the outcome of my experimentation for this assignment. I was really inspired by Richard Sweeney‘s studies on paper folding. There was this certain complexity in areas that somehow expressed simplicity and elegance in its complete form. I thought this came for the repetition of accurate folds that lead for the paper to transform into a very dimensional form. I started from a small piece of paper and created simple folds. From that I tried some complex folds. Then I worked with bigger sheets of paper and created multiple folds. This lead to me create a sculptural piece, which somewhat resembled Sweeney’s works.

I’ve had a pen pal since summer of 2010, however last December I stopped responding due to the accumulation of tasks and busy work that consumed this past year of my life. I resorted to communicating with her in ways that seemed more expedient; however with that we lost an element that was characteristic of our friendship.

Being here brings me back to a state of compulsive list making and constantly attempting, and often failing to complete assignments. Rather than complete this project for a letter grade, I’ve decided to use it as a means to accomplish a personal task. The content of the envelope serves as an excuse for my delayed response, however the assignment being an incentive to respond ten months later demonstrates the still present importance of academic requirements over personal ones.

Materials:

Rather than forward progress, I chose to represent a backwards progression. Beautiful gem or stone-like objects decay and fall apart. They spew the earth that they came from and will return to, while maggots aid in the process.

Raised in Korea, I’ve been very familiar with origami since I was a child. When the assignment was given, I tired to find the solution in the original form of origami and folding, and I realized that I am repeating something. I got a feeling that I was stuck, so i gathered all the origamis that i made for this project and tried to find the clue where i was stuck, and I realized that they were all made out of origami paper. I decided to change the material. I thought of many different materials and decided to use Aluminum foil, and chose a crane as a subject, because that is what I think the most basic definition of origami. The Foil Crane that I created  theoretically should look stronger than paper crane, but it actually looks more fragile because of its tangibility.