this is limbo
lend yr. heart
A SERIES OF CANDLE-LIT LANTERNS:
before the winter over here started i handmade a series of about 200 lanterns out of paper, and lit the images stenciled on them with candles lighting them up: www.flickr.com/photos/thisislimbo/sets/72157600304155485/ .
but as the rain got more and more frequent, it thought i would postpone it until the weather was more sympathetic. now that it is, i thought about trying to make it a little more developed and the attached pics are what cam out of it.all the brighter spaces are the candlelight shining through rice paper applied to a cut-out hole in the cardboard.
what i like about the lanterns is that it deals with the frail temporary aspect of putting up art in street.if i take the best case scenario (that nobody takes the piece after a short while and there are no extreme winds or rain) then the longest life span of these pieces will be that of the candles, which is probably just a few hours. therefore, when someone runs into it on the street they know that it was placed there not so long ago and they, by coincidence, got there in the small time frame that the piece was "active", hopefully giving them the feeling that it was placed there especially for them, and maybe guiding them,following them home and subtly lighting up their way.
lend yr. heart
A SERIES OF CANDLE-LIT LANTERNS:
before the winter over here started i handmade a series of about 200 lanterns out of paper, and lit the images stenciled on them with candles lighting them up: www.flickr.com/photos/thisislimbo/sets/72157600304155485/ .
but as the rain got more and more frequent, it thought i would postpone it until the weather was more sympathetic. now that it is, i thought about trying to make it a little more developed and the attached pics are what cam out of it.all the brighter spaces are the candlelight shining through rice paper applied to a cut-out hole in the cardboard.
what i like about the lanterns is that it deals with the frail temporary aspect of putting up art in street.if i take the best case scenario (that nobody takes the piece after a short while and there are no extreme winds or rain) then the longest life span of these pieces will be that of the candles, which is probably just a few hours. therefore, when someone runs into it on the street they know that it was placed there not so long ago and they, by coincidence, got there in the small time frame that the piece was "active", hopefully giving them the feeling that it was placed there especially for them, and maybe guiding them,following them home and subtly lighting up their way.