Video: Wood Cloth: Fraser Smith's Deceptive Sculptures
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Fraser Smith is a true master of optical illusion. Take a look at his works: colored blankets and towels, leather jackets, terry robes and youth baseball caps … It's hard to believe that Fraser is a sculptor, not a fashion designer, and his work is made of wood and certainly not fabric.
Each sculpture by Fraser Smith is carved from a single piece of American linden and then painted with water-based paints. “The process of carving a blanket out of a heavy piece of wood is by no means pleasant,” the author shares with us. - It's dirty, dusty, incredibly tiring and involves constant lifting of weights. There is nothing fun here. The pleasure comes later - when looking at the finished finished work."
Fraser Smith says that he is not trying to recreate exact replicas of clothing, but rather something that our eyes perceive as clothing. “First, you see the quilt and in this connection form some kind of inner judgment. But then you realize that this is a piece of wood - and your initial judgment changes,”the sculptor explains. According to the author, he is trying to "fool the eyes" from a distance of one meter, but not ten centimeters. So if you look closely at his works, then the desired effect will not happen. But on the other hand, to make it so that the audience at a distance of one or two steps could not distinguish fabric from wood - is this not a sign of skill?
Fraser Smith was born in Texarkana, Arkansas, USA in 1958. Exhibitions of his works are held almost every year in various American cities: New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Miami, Chicago and others. Recently, the author has stopped working on clothing sculptures, focusing entirely on carving wooden quilts and caps. More works by Fraser Smith can be seen at his website.
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