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| Notice Forest serial - burger manly someone monarch bag |
i start spied
yuken teruya's operate inward a home. i was sitting talking to the collector together with across the room i saw this handbag - together with did it receive got a tree IN it? when at that spot was a interruption inward our conversation i walked over to it together with was straight off smitten. at that spot was a tree. painstakingly carved from the top of the handbag together with and thus gingerly dropped into the interior.
the whole slice together with what it encompassed - a tree makes a bag, the handbag makes a tree; turning an ordinary object into something thus captivating; looking beyond traditional materials for art-making.
this was a instant where i seriously thought - damn. i wishing i had come upwardly up alongside that thought ! (See to a greater extent than afterwards the jump)!
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| Notice Forrest serial - Louis Vuitton bag |
of class the slice changes equally yous recall virtually the type of handbag existence used. inward that start icon it's a burger manly someone monarch handbag - fast food, consumer culture, trash....
he's besides done approximately alongside high terminate designer bags... the pregnant shifts to include thoughts on class. a whole other variety of consumption. the haves together with the havenots.
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| Notice Forrest serial - Marc Jacobs bag |
champaign he models each tree from a REAL urban landscape tree - reproducing it inward this environment.
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| Notice Forrest serial - tops of bags |
that thought interests me equally it besides starts to verbalize virtually conservation [can a tree live on saved for posterity this way?] together with our weird agency of placing nature inward urban areas. the potential variation inward color, style, etc. from the handbag choice lone is heed boggling. non to holler the top sentiment is only equally interesting equally the peering within view.
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| corner forest |
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corner forest
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when yous start out to hold back at teruya's operate equally a whole at that spot are approximately constants. a want to utilization mundane together with quotidian objects together with heighten them to novel heights. to brand beauty together with delicacy out of something that is most sure as shooting non beautiful together with delicate.
a want to relate his ain personal sense - his okinawan sense [born there] - to a greater world. to a globe that has approximately consumerist global truths perhaps? higher upwardly he created stencils from cereal boxes to spray pigment traditional japanese [and specially from okinawa -
bingata patterning] patterns on the wall [he besides did this IN the street alongside shoe box stencils. approximately other layer of meaning.]
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| minding my ain business, 2011 |
a want to heal? a reply to tragedy. life "sprouting" from the news.
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| green economy, 2010 |
a want to brand a political statement.
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| earn lots of coin - no involve to shipping whatsoever letters, only shipping the coin habitation first, 2009-2010 video + cardboard boxes |
a want to demonstrate life cross-culturally - how indeed nosotros are on similar journeys. how life inward a metropolis - specially for the working shape tin live on both dissimilar together with same.
for this trunk of operate [one i would genuinely similar to see] yuken explains [taken from his website]:
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This v channel video installation documents the journeying of little Origami boats, fitted alongside national flags of diverse countries, equally they locomote along the gutter of a street inward Brooklyn’s low-rent neighborhood of many South American immigrants, Bushwick, where the creative someone used to reside. The movies are projected on empty cardboard boxes scattered inward the space.  |
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One video shows a squad of firemen opening a burn downwardly hydrant to inundation the street, a neighborhood substitute for air-conditioning. Another shows a modest picking 1 of the newspaper boats out of the water. Those lively petty boats deport the life stories of the immigrants, together with besides the creative someone himself’s history of moving from Nippon to the United States.  |
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The championship of the slice references a mutual early on 20th century colloquial cheerio at the Okinawa docks equally ships carried identify unit of measurement members away to unusual lands inward search of a amend life. yeah. this is for me. here's approximately other fourth dimension where i'm having a difficult fourth dimension deciding what slice to add together to my collection. i recall i'm going to settle on a wood slice solely because i HAVE seen those inward someone thus i know how magical they genuinely are. how to conduct a tree though? color? type of bag? shape of the tree?
i recall this chanel 1 suits me only fine. what's non to love?
proceed rails of my growing collection on
pinterest. until side past times side time. happy fine art looking.... together with halloween !
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lisa solomon is a mixed media creative someone who lives inward oakland, CA alongside her husband, immature daughter, a 1 eyed pit bull, a french bulldog, a cross-eyed cat, a iii legged cat, together with many many spools of thread. she moonlights equally a college professor, a graphic designer, together with is a partner inward MODify/d a crafty biz that up/cycles together with re/purposes discards from the fashion industry.
