For this project I was honestly just playing with the material and getting an idea of how it worked when manipulate. I wanted to make an abstract sculpture because I wanted to go outside my comfort zone of needing everything to be precise and instead make something that essentially makes no sense.

I started by taping piece together and seeing what it would create, I ended up with this building like structure and wanted to do more to it so I started introducing the string to play around with it a bit. I used the glittery string first to help bind the structure together and create interesting patterns with the structure. I then went and added a plain black string so that I could up the shapes being made and make them more dynamic and interesting.

For our project, Rebecca and I decided to work with just string and tape. We wanted to go with a “web of life” kind of idea and make it interesting within the space. The white yarn represents life and the good parts, the high points of life. The black string lower to the ground represents death and the bad parts, low points of life.  The red/pink string was to represent the steadiness of life, the linear aspect of going back and forth and learning and stumbling and succeeding. All of these components were used to give an representation to the complexity of life and to bring them together in a complex, condensed way.

Heeseops’ work deals with memory and cluttered spaces. She will take pictures of different cluttered spaces like basements and storage spaces. She uses the photographs as bases for her drawings and free hands around them without erasing. She uses her mistakes to her advantage and lets them represent how she has changed over time and it helps her question her original perspective. I find her work beautiful in a very chaotic and cluttered way. I am inspired in her ability to work with creative lines and abstract work that being something I personally struggle with. Heeseops’ work inspires me to try new techniques and be okay with making mistakes.

“Crossing the Line” at Mixed Greens

“Still Life #11” by Heeseop Yoon at Smack Mellon

Janet Echelman is an artist that deals with large, massive scale and lets the wind and environment change and effect her work. She combines old technique and new technology to create her stunning artwork.

Her TED talk has been translated into 34 different languages and 1 million views. She is popular in many different counties and has been recognized for her architectural artwork several times.

She’s moved several times in her life, born in america, lived in hong kong and then Bali,Indonesia until a fire took her house. She experimented with materials from painting to bronze until one day she was watching fisherman working with their nets and wondered if that could be a new way to do sculpture without all the heavy materials.

Today Echelman has constructed net sculpture environments in metropolitan cities around the world. She sees public art as a team sport and collaborates with a range of professionals including aeronautical and mechanical engineers, architects, lighting designers, landscape architects, and fabricators.

Dale Chihuly is a multimedia artist with a concentration in 3D art. His preferred media of choice is glass, he was introduced to this media at the University of Washington while taking interior design. After graduating he started taking classes to learn how to create with glass.

He has created a number of well known series of works, some of them being Baskets in the 1970’s, Seaforms and Persians in the 1980’s, and Fiori in the 2000’s. He has created many glass sculptures for factories in Finland, Ireland and Mexico, he than installed them all over the canals and piazzas of Venice.

Tim Shumate is an illustrator and tattoo designer that lives in Chicago. He takes old disney characters, pixar characters or historical figures and changes them up with his own personal style. He typically draws his characters inside frames and has the breaking the planes in certain areas to create depth.
He uses a mixture of media, pen and ink, graphite and color with some digital to portray his work. While his works are small and usually sketchbook paper size, they are very detailed and show the sense of a figure and objects in space. 

His portrayal of figures is unique, he takes something that has a preconceived idea about it and changes it to fit his own definition.