Joseph Marr
Joseph Marr has created a series of beautiful sculptures made entirely out of sugar. Employing a variety of traditional and digital techniques, Marr aims to create sensual works that bridge the gap between classical and contemporary art. Many of his sculptures include liquids like Cola and Fanta as well as flavorings like apple, lemon, and raspberry. Speaking about the project Marr says, “Any desire at all is the reason why our soul is trapped in the karmic lessons of our Ego. Candy is a wonderful medium to show two things…how we are trapped in the sticky situation and how attractive the tasty desire really is.
I love the transpancy of his work and the way the light shimmers and reflects against the surface of the sugar, i also like the way the process captures the bubbles and imperfections caught within the making of the sculptures.
Brian Matthew Hart
Hart creates light paintings using pin lights and a long exposure shot.
i love the work he creates depicting fingerprints as they are very skilled, with the fact its compleatly dark when your creating them so you dont know untill you develop the picture weather you have actually done the piece correctly.
an artist that i came across recently is JUNE YONG LEE the words describing the pieces written by the artist connect with my work well probably better then the work does so ill put them on here for who every may be reading
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‘Bodies record personal stories and suggest the ways that we remember. Skin, in particular, reflects who we are and tells stories that we might not always recognize. Memories, like scars on skin, are fragile. Some scars last longer than others while some heal but never disappear, helping us preserve a memory. We use tattoos to engrave memories under our skin and make them permanent. We change the form of our bodies by losing and gaining weight. Although memories deteriorate and denature with time, our skin never forgets.
Through these photographs, I want to visually present what skin can reveal to us. By removing the forms and shapes of the body, viewers are asked to consider both the unique and universal characteristics of skin. Digital technology enabled me to create this constructed and fictional imagery while still maintaining reality of body. This interplay between fiction and non-fiction provides us with objective, detached, and unfamiliar views. Observing the intimate and subtle details of each individual’s history can help us to identify our own personal differences and understand others – and ourselves – better.’June Yong Lee“
http://www.juxtapoz.com/erotica/june-yong-lee-s-fl…
after looking at various options to attach the sculptures to the wall I decided the best method was to insert something actually into the sculpture, I decided to use wooden dowels as they were strong and made from a natural material rather then a man made material, I set the dowels into the sugar in the pouring process of the sculpture.
I then drew out and drilled the holes for the dowels into the wall and plan to paint the wall next to make it look more professional.
when I done this piece I realised it had stuck to the mirror I had put it on that then gave me the idea of mounting the pieces vertically and filming the piece until such time it falls of and smashes to the floor , I love this idea and haven’t given up on it get but trying to work out how exactly how to do it is quite technically challenging and expensive, so have put the idea on hold at the moment until such time I can work out a way to execute the piece.
this led me to the idea of attaching the sculpture directly to the wall, I looked at gluing or permanently attaching the sculptures to the wall but wanted to interchange them to create not just the piece on the wall but a painting of sorts as the pieces melted down the wall.
I then had to think about the design, and whether I would position them randomly or in a curtain sequence, I didn’t want to make anything to obvious but I still wanted it to relate to the process.
in the end I decided to write out in a sense the chemical formulae for inverted sugar making each element a dot on the wall ectra h2o would be three dots and so on.
