Yesterday, I was noodling around with oil pastels and devised this map of Ithaca in mobile form. Unfortunately, my scanner truncated the top and bottom of the page. But even still, it's a pretty useless map.
About Me
- Werner Sun
- Ithaca, New York, United States
- I have always been inspired by the mobiles of Alexander Calder, and I try to capture the same lightness and grace in my own sculptures. However, being a particle physicist, I am also interested in bringing invisible, abstract ideas to life and giving them tangible form. Mapping the space between the poetic and the analytic is the unspoken subject of my work. My sculptures range in size from miniature wall mobiles to room-filling installations, and I employ a variety of materials: metal, wood, stone, polymer clay, paper, and found objects. I work primarily with a geometric vocabulary, arranging blocks of color into compositions that are both organized and flexible. Indeed, it is this balance between stability and chaos, control and movement, that animates my work and my imagination.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Mobile Maps
I had an idea last week of making a series of intricate mobiles depicting road maps of various places. Except these maps would be completely disorienting because the different parts of the mobile would keep moving around. Cartographer as jokester.
Yesterday, I was noodling around with oil pastels and devised this map of Ithaca in mobile form. Unfortunately, my scanner truncated the top and bottom of the page. But even still, it's a pretty useless map.
Yesterday, I was noodling around with oil pastels and devised this map of Ithaca in mobile form. Unfortunately, my scanner truncated the top and bottom of the page. But even still, it's a pretty useless map.
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6 comments:
my house is that purple blob in the northeast :)
hullo to you and Robbo!
Hi Werner,
whats with that line into nirvana labeled ^W.Sun 2009^ ?
Adi
Actually, that's the road to Geneva ;-).
I hope to mail your painting today....
This is a great idea!! Do you have Groton on it. :-)
You could make one with all the artistin the county. :-)
i love randomness. i like it. happy new years dude
rock on!
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