happy ant's blog

这个来自Su Blackwell的Book Cut sculptures 精品无疑又是一个完美的结合，用艺术的结晶来包裹内心的每一个故事，境界不同凡响，无论你处在什么年龄阶段，我想它都会打动你的视觉给你带来梦幻神奇的魅力........

Artist Statement:
In previous work I've asked the audience to write down their dreams and float them in a bowl of water, watching as their writing disperses and fades. Flowers flourish, then wither, and a child's cotton dress disintegrates as it becomes something else...a cloud of butterflies.

I undergo repetitive labour-intensive processes that often involve sewing, knotting, folding and cutting, intimate actions that reveal the hand at work. My methods of working are a meditative process, which can develop into an intrinsic type of ritual, whereby I take the familiar and by a matter of fact manner move it towards the fantastic.

I use non-art materials such as books and clothes to create work which evokes a sense of dreamy melancholy or magical enchantment. I'm interested in the realm of fairy-tales and folk-legends and have been working on a series of book-works exploring these themes, externalising the pages of the book and allowing it to be read in another way.

I find the materialization of the flat piece of paper an almost magical process.

As I become more involved in the making, I feel like I am creating small stage sets, inhabited by characters caught up in their own magical, whimsical and sometimes haunting journeys

The book-cut sculptures are displayed in glass cases, like relics found in a Victorian museum.
I am currently working with a filmmaker exploring the medium of animation, as a process in which to bring another dimension to my sculptural paper pieces.