Jennifer Crupi

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Creates work that forces the wearer to hold their body in a certain position, strike a certain pose, perform a gesture





  







I like the way these communicate through controlled body language, and draw attention to the way a person stands in casual circumstances. Some of the pieces create a gesture that is less natural to hold, but many are natural standing positions.

Daniel Arsham

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I've found Daniel Arsham's work to be incredibly beautiful. Initially I think it must have appealed t me because of the minimalist lack of colour and the fabric textures in his sculptural work, but I also enjoy the particular objects his work is made up of. The first work of his I ever saw was Hiding Figure; while it probably wasn't the intention of the artist, the piece spoke to me of the themes I'm exploring in my own work, that is, discomfort in myself and the desire to hide when feeling confined by (usually social) circumstances.


Mirror Slit, 2012


Five Crystal Eroded Payphones, 2013


Hiding Figure, 2011


WANTdrawing

I included one of his drawings for inspiration in possible text work. I love that while this is only one word, it's very bold, and this is still a very strong image.

Peter Trevelyan

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Sculptures made with pencil lead

Decided to include an artist who creates sculptures with a similar look to my own to get an idea of how I can make my paperclips singular sculptural forms. His ideas seem to be more about geometry, though, so it's kind of a different circumstance.

Sarah Nance, Conditional Presenses, 2013

Silk string, microbeads, light

Tokujin Yoshioka

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Rainbow Church, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo 2013-14

Things the pillows heard

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I find it interesting that this artwork is kind of unexplained, and the artist has not made themselve known (a bit of a Banksy phenomenon).
I love the work, though (if that's what it is). The words written on the used pillows are intimate, some domestic, but despite the fact that they are sitting on the curb waiting to be picked up they have a beautiful personality and a rich sense of humanity to them.

The visible text on the pillows read:

- 'are you okay? I don't want to hurt you'
- 'mom, I just threw up'
- 'leave me alone... (I don't want to be alone)'
- 'sorry I drool'

The less discernible ones appear to read:
- 'maybe foreign girls aren't so great'
- 'my god, why can't he just [hidden in image] he can't commit. I am [...] I'll marry him'
- '[...] you are so gross. the first thing [...] is take a shower'
- 'why don't they [...]'

I saw this light board in Typo and thought it might be an idea, given that I'm working with text and light in my work, to back light text. I've noticed a trend in text works  that use neon lighting - this is the inverse of that, which also casts a different kind of atmospheric light. 

Building a light box structure is probably more achievable at my level than manipulating neon tubing.

Tim Sterling

Since I'm exploring the idea of expanding on some of my previous work, I will be looking at some artists that work with small identical modules to build larger works through repetitious processes. Hopefully I'll be able to draw some inspiration from these

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Review 2
Tim Sterling also uses paperclips, but in a way in which they are easily recognisable. It might be an idea to look into different ways I could attach the paperclips without using pre existing options i.e twisting, weaving


The Image
My immediate thought is that the wall is in danger of being drawn on. This is a beautiful form - one I wouldn't have though would hold it's shape being made only out of cable ties and pencil stubs. It's quite a controlled structure - I'm not sure I would enjoy that. From my work with paperclips, I loved the spontaneous forms that would occur and how it would grow in an organic way as I built on it, without any careful methods or measurements.


Hesse's Table
I wouldn't have thought, but this is also made out of paperclips and cable ties. It's a far more dense a formation, which is probably what threw me.


Hole In The Wall
Made from PVC pipe and wire rope. It's very architectural, and again quite a structured formation. While this isn't what I want for my work, it's good to consider alternative ways of connecting materials


Flowers
In my experimentation with paperclips I have woven them exactly like this in a square formation. The result is beautiful, but easily tangled and shifts very easily

Previous Work; Title: Reluctance

Reluctance was a work I made for a project last year, the criteria being a) the piece had to be worn or inhabited, and b) the piece had to be ergonomic, or talk about an aspect of your life, e.g. habits, reflections on human nature etc.

Reluctance, Bianca Pauley, 2014, paperclips and metal zipper

I made it from paperclips, twisted together so that they wouldn't shift against each other. Instead they were restrictive, and at the same time decorative. My intention had been to make the covered area slightly larger to more effectively restrict upper body and neck movement, however the process was quite long and I ran out of time.

Reluctance  speaks about the restrictions of societal norms and behaviours, as well as my own reluctance to participate when I personally find conforming to common expectation difficult and overall anxiety inducing. The use of paperclips and zippers are additional metaphors as objects usually used to 'keep things together'. The structure holds me in a certain position, one that feels uncomfortable and unnatural, which reflects common sentiments over socialising, it certainly does my own.

I enjoyed both the process and the physicality of this work and would like to continue expanding on similar ideas, potentially explored through similar materials and processes.

Derek Overfield

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Silvia Grav

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- instantly recognisable emotions and body language, distorted with editing to add additional meaning

- these kinds of effects, and the ones that I've looked at in previous posts are 

the kind I could incorporate into video art if my work takes that direction

Michel Nquie

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Etehreality


Whatever Is Has Already Been.


5 Solae


This possibly isn't entirely relevant to my work as it's sort of narrative based - but I like that and the metaphoric links that can be made through the struggle of climbing up an unstable hill. Personally I hate climbing sand hills, the effort of climbing a hill alone is bad enough, but being dragged back by the shifting of fine particles just unnecessarily complicates things. I can definitely see physical struggle representing mental struggle, or life journey struggles, and these images are a beautiful way of doing that.

Mile 3.25 Tidal Inlet

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The face and the hands are two of the most expressive parts of the human body. Interesting that even though the details are obstructed they still maintain their expressive qualities, but more due to the illusion of motion, and colours and textures, which speak of emotion, or identity (particularly in the case of the first pair of images)

Brian Oldham

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- illuminated face, distortion of features

- everyday light source

- light source

- partial silhouette

- fabric hides parts of the figure

In both pictures there is a large focus on the open mouth, and a general unsettled/disturbed vibe from the body language of the subject.
I like that the light source both reveals and hides the subject in parts


- a happy accident in which two images were superimposed due to a computer glitch when gathering images