Video: Original busts of Scott Fife: volumetric cardboard products
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Is it possible to turn an old cardboard box into a work of art (TV costume for a New Year's party in kindergarten does not count)? American sculptor Scott Fife can do it - he makes amazing cardboard busts. All that is needed in order to create beauty is skillful hands and a trained eye. And materials can be the most ingenuous: cardboard, screws, glue.
We have already written about the unusual use of cardboard in the article “A camera with your own hands. Keel Johnson's Cardboard Chambers. Contemporary sculptor Scott Fife has been working with cardboard for 25 years - an impressive period. But after all, everything once happened for the first time. How did the artist come up with the idea of using such material that would seem to be unsuitable for volumetric images?
Scott decided to try cardboard for the first time for purely economic reasons. Why not do a couple of rough works out of scrap material? Moreover, there are heaps of ownerless boxes on the streets: pick up and create. Scott did just that: he collected packing cardboard from the shops, cut it into pieces at home, colored the resulting fragments and put it into use.
The action was conceived as a one-time, but the artist got involved, realizing that cardboard is his material: moderately malleable, moderately rigid - in general, what you need. Since then, the master began to create unique cardboard products with the help of screws and glue - real works of art.
But ordinary packaging cardboard quickly deteriorated, and along with it, wonderful busts of the work of Scott Fife came to a deplorable state. Of course, this did not suit the artist: who wants to create one-day works?
The sculptor began to look for a more durable material. He liked the cardboard from which archival boxes are made - and soon the first works from the new series appeared.
Throughout his life, the author of unusual cardboard products is limited to only a minimal set of tools. All he needs for creativity is sheets of thick cardboard, a knife, screws, a screwdriver and glue.
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