Do Ho Suh

To deal with the issues of longing for home, the artist has built a replica in fabric of his parents home which he could carry in a suitcase. His use of filmy see through fabrics in his representation of architectural spaces seem to make them ephemeral and not real, but there as a ghost or thought of a space. This transformed idea reflects how the artist  felt belonging in the original space and time when he was present in it. It fulfils his wish to inhabit that space again, even if it is only in its whimsical  reflection and to have  that moment and that space accessible always…

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.  Art is knowing which ones to keep.  ~Scott Adams

Cornelia Parker

http://www.tate.org.uk/colddarkmatter/default.htm 

 

Cornelia Parker bends time and space to recreate a moment of change

She suspends pieces of the destruction of an object, floating it in a frozen explosion…a moment in time which is stopped for the viewer to examine. There is a repetition of form and idea as the piece is spread out in space.

The artist uses subtle differences in size and height of the individual elements, which impart direction and movement. Suspension frames the pieces with space, giving them the quality of a thought, enhancing the idea of that particular moment in time. They are floating, not an object which is whole and complete. This allows them their own place of belonging in that time between destruction and aftermath.

  LAURA SPLAN

Blood. It’s Splan’s blood, and it’s her ink of choice. She’s been combining horror and beauty, the biological and the familiar in her artwork for over ten years. For her current project she is using her own blood to paint over vintage doilies, which serve as stencils. When removed from the canvas, the doilies leave behind a series of overlapping, almost floating organic forms – created by the blood seeping into the negative space.

 An article on Laura Splan with an interview

William Kentridge

http://www.davidkrutpublishing.com/William_Kentridge_Artist.htm 

 

 

An animation I will always remember from his exhibition at the MCA in Sydney

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MO1m2fuztU