Video: Outlandish sculptures resembling the honeycomb of an alien hive, made from ordinary tracing paper
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
American artist Mary Button Durrel creates an unusual kind of sculpture, or rather, art objects. In appearance, they resemble cell membranes, or even the skeletons of outlandish underwater creatures. Others can easily be mistaken for an overgrown alien hive.
In his work, Darrell focuses on two main materials - tracing paper and wheat grains. Using these two simple elements, Mary creates interesting organic works, the size of which ranges from fifteen centimeters to three meters. The artist is inspired by a craving for all sorts of observations, as well as a great desire to work with organic materials. In addition, Darrell is interested in the properties of light - tracing paper allows the artist to explore the ability of this material to interact with light.
On a superficial examination of Darrell's work, it seems as if the pseudocells are attached to each other using metal wires. However, it turned out that in the process of creating her sculptures, the artist does not at all resort to the help of inorganic elements. The artist forms peculiar cones, or simply honeycombs, using molds of various types and diameters, and then manually attaches one to the other. Darrell uses freshly made wheat paste as a bonding agent.
“The simplicity and accessibility of the materials with which the artist works is surprising - she uses ordinary tracing paper and wheat paste. However, her approach and those non-standard solutions that Darrell uses in the course of work are even more surprising. The simplicity of the materials chosen, however, does not negate the difficult hours of work on each object. These multi-layered, fragile and complex forms seem to serve as a reminder of such a fragile and complex world in which we live. " (From an interview for the portal "In The Make").
It is curious that among contemporary artists there has recently been a tendency to use the simplest materials for the manufacture of sculptures and installations. For example, a young American artist, sculptor and graphic artist, Crystal Wagner, when creating her works, widely uses goods from the assortment of all-for-the-dollar stores. Her works, as well as those of Mary Darrell, resemble the flora of an outlandish planet, while organically fitting into the gallery space.
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