Process Book Subtractive/Additive Project

Chrissy Eckman

This artist creates beautiful sculptures with flowers collected from the private gardens of the most renowned landscape designers in Europe. They are held together without adhesive of any kind. The artist weaved the flowers together on a plastic mold and then added varnish simply to prevent moisture absorption.

Ignacio Canales Aracil The Fragility of Time

Dried flowers

http://el-nogal.tumblr.com/

Forever Spring More works from The Fragility of Time collection

Orly Genger Mr. Softy, 2005

Nylon rope with paint

http://www.uarts.edu/news/2012/01/rosenwald-wolf-gallery-presents-orly-genger-exhibition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBv34eh45oI

Orly Genger creates additive installations by repeatedly knotting single lengths of painted climbing rope to generate bulk and form. The hands-on process is similar to knitting, but it plays on the masculine macho required in the industrial production of classic Minimalist fabrication.

Big Boss, 2010 Nylon climbing rope with latex paint

Untitled Stack, 2010 Nylon climbing rope with latex paint

Mark Hagen To Be Titled, 2012

Cement and stainless steel

http://www.bassmuseum.org/tc/mark-hagen-tc-temporary-contemporary/

This sculpture is made up of cast cement units with textures found from consumer packaging, recycled cardboard, packing tape and molds that Mark Hagen made from 47-year-old graffiti from a cement and coral stone wall. The vertical stacking suggests layers or hierarchies that were built over time, but the modules within the sculpture add an unfixed, nomadic quality to the permanent record behind the layers. His work finds inspiration in the breakdown and complication of hierarchies, history, and vision. They are as disoriented as they are ordered.

Works from his Black Swamp installation

Duplex Drive, 2013 Aluminum and stainless steel, rainbow obsidian

Lalibela, 2012 Cement and metal armature

In this photo the left side of the sphere is slightly thinner after being sanded down

(this one looks like a fish skeleton)

Here I thought I was finished, but after looking through my process photos I decided that the rocks added an important element of unity to the form; the values within them bring out the color of the wire backbone and make it appear more intentional. I also noticed from this image that a black background works well with the neutral colors in my form so I chose to add a black base.