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Installation
Shot
Kala Fellowship Exhibition
(Part 1)
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley
July 20- Sept 2, 2006 |
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| Project:
Kala Fellowhip Exhibition
(Part 1) |
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| For my current group
of photographs I turned my camera away from my sculptures of
San Francisco in Jell-O® and focused it on the scale models,
molds, and props that I constructed to make them. In contrast
to the glowingly saturated and chaotic San Francisco in Jell-O
series, these photographs are quiet, minimal, and monochromatic.
Their simplicity, along with the large scale of the prints,
allows the viewer to observe the objects’ formal beauty.
The images provide a glimpse of the labor-intensive process
involved in making the sculptures and the deceptively strange
materials I use, such as balsa wood, silicone rubber, foam
core, and feathers. The materials are often straightforward,
and the titles of the pieces tell the viewer what the object
is, but a level of unfamiliarity remains. Instead of diminishing
the magic of the original gelatinous cityscapes, these pale,
bone-like models and blue, gummy molds introduce a new layer
of mystery.
Click here to see San Francisco in Jell-O series
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