Urbanscape 8
2011
duct-tape, rag paper
15.5x15.5" (40 cm x 40 cm)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Coffelt
I currently explore duct-tape and new technologies concerning it. I subvert it by utilizing it alongside traditional mediums such as paper, vellum and Tyvek. I navigate the similarities of computer motherboards, traffic patterns, street maps, and ancient architectural ruins. I interpret them in ways to draw the viewer into dialog, continuing explorations of methodologies and relationships. Though linearly based, these works allude to organic structuring and fractals.
I suggest, that this marriage between duct-tape and Tyvek is total debauchery. It's play on materials, textures and colors furthers my premise as an artist of working with opposition in every way possible. This multi-layering and sometimes grafting of colors refer to different ideologies within each piece, inflating the notion of a universe where subversives become part of the fabric of what is a known truth but instead of causing it to unravel, they make the weak parts stronger.
2011
duct-tape, rag paper
15.5x15.5" (40 cm x 40 cm)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Coffelt
I currently explore duct-tape and new technologies concerning it. I subvert it by utilizing it alongside traditional mediums such as paper, vellum and Tyvek. I navigate the similarities of computer motherboards, traffic patterns, street maps, and ancient architectural ruins. I interpret them in ways to draw the viewer into dialog, continuing explorations of methodologies and relationships. Though linearly based, these works allude to organic structuring and fractals.
I suggest, that this marriage between duct-tape and Tyvek is total debauchery. It's play on materials, textures and colors furthers my premise as an artist of working with opposition in every way possible. This multi-layering and sometimes grafting of colors refer to different ideologies within each piece, inflating the notion of a universe where subversives become part of the fabric of what is a known truth but instead of causing it to unravel, they make the weak parts stronger.
