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Filed under: thornworks
This is my piece for the Change the Truth Foundation
fundraiser to be held on June 25 at Leedy Voulkos Art Center.
Check out http://www.changethetruth.org/index.shtml
to learn more about this amazing organization founded by Gloria Baker Feinstein. photography by EG Schempf
Filed under: thornworks
Crosshatch II 2010
This piece made of thorns from the honey locust tree was part of a temporary installation at the Kansas City Design Center in February. It was 42″ in diameter.
Photography by EG Schempf
Filed under: Pyrographs
This is one of a new series of self portraits. They are pyrographs or burn drawings, on paper with paper embedded into the work.
In a series of self portraits I’m drawing further on the relationship between the environment and the body. I see relationships emerging between the infinite nature of digital information and the finite world, between the constant sense of making and remaking of oneself. There is something about the eternally shifting relationship between order and chaos and the struggle to reach a point of equilibrium.
photography by EG Schempf
Filed under: thornworks
This piece is in the auction exhibition at the Nerman Museum to be held on October 24, 2009.
I’m interested in this structure as a kind of uncertain sanctuary, suggesting a sense of refuge in discomfort.
I’m intrigued by and often overwhelmed with the constant negotiation between order and disorder; the sense of random chaos versus the need for organizing structure.
The work is constructed of thorns from the honey locust tree.
The holes through which the thorns are pierced are made with the use of a burning tool. The same tool used to make the pyrographs.
Photography by E.G. Schempf
Filed under: Pyrographs
These are images from a newly completed commission for the JE Dunn corporate collection. It is a pyrograph of the steel infrastructure of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, designed by Moshe Safdie. It reveals the bone structure of the building and as construction progresses this amazing infrastructure is being enveloped in concrete. As with the one minute videos, this pyrograph is a drawing related to the construction of this building. The size of the drawing is 51″ x 88″. Photography by E.G. Schempf
