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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.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Photo Experiment


I have been thinking about making art prints from photos of my mobiles, but in a way that captures all four dimensions at once (three space and one time). Here is a first attempt, where I've superimposed three heavily-processed images and then reprocessed the whole thing one more time.

My intent is not to depict my mobiles accurately but rather to start with a real 4D piece of art and turn it into a 2D piece of art that stands on its own. Does it work? I can't tell yet.

At the moment, my only tool is Aperture (on the Mac), and it was very painstaking work to erase the shadows from the wires and to lighten the background bit by bit. I may have to invest in Photoshop.....

2 comments:

Gallow said...

That sounds like a cool idea. Great job.

Gary's third pottery blog said...

Werner, you are the COOLEST.