Artifac, 2012
Mahogany, canvas, steel, cardboard. 6.5H x 5W x 3Th Inches.
My piece is a take on the reverence with which we choose to handle and display important artifacts from prehistory or antiquity.
It includes an archeologist's scale (in CM) and delicate painted steel arms to ensconce the precious object.
I treated the core with bleach to lighten it, giving it the appearance of a bone or clay artifact, hence the piece's name: Artifact.
This piece appeared in Robin Wood's Cores Recycled: Exhibition and Fundraiser, at The Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA
About Robin Wood's Cores Recycled: Exhibition and Fundraiser
The CORES fundraiser is inspired by the practice of pole turner, Robin Wood, of the UK. Wood engages in research and historic turning with a foot-powered lathe constructed of a limber tree branch attached by rope to a work bed for turning wood. This exhibition is inspired by Wood’s submission of “Cor Blimey” to The Center’s 2008 Challenge VII: dysFUNctionalexhibition. Robin’s installation was comprised of a huge pile of waste CORES and a video which captured him pole turning near the trail of CORES broken out of bowls he turned over a two-year period. Robin’s practice and documentation are a powerful contrast to contemporary electric machines and waste that ends up in landfills.
The CORES typical of Robin Wood’s practice are of various woods, and are unique in color, size and shape, depending on the interior shape and diameter of each bowl. The CORES range from 2 x 2 inches to 3 x 4 inches. Many are hand-sized, but a few are the size of two hands. Robin donated 100 cores to The Center to be used as raw material for this exhibit. Selected artists were sent a core—sight unseen—to recycle into a new piece of art. Sales of the innovative work that forms Robin Wood’s Cores Recycled will fund Center programming in 2013.
It includes an archeologist's scale (in CM) and delicate painted steel arms to ensconce the precious object.
I treated the core with bleach to lighten it, giving it the appearance of a bone or clay artifact, hence the piece's name: Artifact.
This piece appeared in Robin Wood's Cores Recycled: Exhibition and Fundraiser, at The Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA
About Robin Wood's Cores Recycled: Exhibition and Fundraiser
The CORES fundraiser is inspired by the practice of pole turner, Robin Wood, of the UK. Wood engages in research and historic turning with a foot-powered lathe constructed of a limber tree branch attached by rope to a work bed for turning wood. This exhibition is inspired by Wood’s submission of “Cor Blimey” to The Center’s 2008 Challenge VII: dysFUNctionalexhibition. Robin’s installation was comprised of a huge pile of waste CORES and a video which captured him pole turning near the trail of CORES broken out of bowls he turned over a two-year period. Robin’s practice and documentation are a powerful contrast to contemporary electric machines and waste that ends up in landfills.
The CORES typical of Robin Wood’s practice are of various woods, and are unique in color, size and shape, depending on the interior shape and diameter of each bowl. The CORES range from 2 x 2 inches to 3 x 4 inches. Many are hand-sized, but a few are the size of two hands. Robin donated 100 cores to The Center to be used as raw material for this exhibit. Selected artists were sent a core—sight unseen—to recycle into a new piece of art. Sales of the innovative work that forms Robin Wood’s Cores Recycled will fund Center programming in 2013.
