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Photos are now up on a new dedicated Reef project page. The viewer above shows a full selection of images of the Reef as installed at upArt 2011. Use the button on the bottom right of the viewer above to see the images in full screen. The images are from the Reef photo set on Flickr and can also be viewed there. Animated gifs of painted paper “fauna” elements against a textile sculpture background from the Reef project that was installed at upART 2011. There are a couple of Happy Sleepies in there, too.  The left side of the Reef. The best and most recent photos to date of the Polytopia textile art as it was installed as the “coral” component in the Reef installation at upART 2011.  Polytopia; post manufacturing industry textiles including canvass, upholstery, vinyl, nylon, foiled nylon wall covering, ripstop and waterproof fabrics, thread, staples; pyramid components 6 x 6 inches at the base x 7 inches tall, above installation at upART 2011 overall size 9 x 12 feet wide; 2011.  Animated gif of the takedown of Polytopia from the upArt 2011 installation. It took months to make, a week to assemble, 4 hours to hoist up, 2 hours to nail in place, and only 1 hour to take down. It was kind of sad! This project has a lot of life of its own, in a way, and ripping out the staples felt like disecting some creature. I kept whispering to it that it shouldn’t worry, and that I hoped it didn’t hurt too much. A surprisingly strong and strange reaction to the task at hand, and no doubt the thick layer of fatigue that filtered my reality at that point in the exhibition had lots to do with it.  Marc Ngui takes down the Polytopia component of The Reef installation. There was a whole lot of ladder action with this project... Polytopia is an ongoing textile art project and it formed the background component for the Reef installation that happened 27 – 30 October 2001 as part of the Gladstone Hotel’s upART art fair in Toronto, Canada. The exhibit was wonderfully photographable, and as a result we have hundreds of images to edit of the installation and exhibition, and those are coming, too.
Polytopia is an ongoing project, a sewn textile exploration of form and composition inspired by geometry, evolution, and utopian states. Here are some photos of arrangements of sewn textile pyramids laid out on my studio floor to test composition before being sewn up into a large three dimentional quilt called Polytopia.
This one is about the size of a football. This Geom was made to be part of a larger installation of textile art and paper sculptures called The Reef, on display 27 to 30 October 2011 at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto for the annual upART Contemporary Art Fair. A scan of a sketchbook of drawings that were made concurrently to an ongoing discussion in the RNA Connective about the nature of technology and its effect on human culture. Spent a little time with these mirrored beauties at the The Met in New York recently. Untitled by Anish KapoorThese two Happy Sleepies are heading to the Artists Help Japan, Toronto 2011 benefit and silent auction.  Two matching Happy Sleepies for Artists Help Japan fundraiser, Toronto 2011 17 April at 12:00 noon to midnight SEE THE WHOLE STORY >> Two photographs that Marc made with a flashlight and a camera set to a long exposure.
Four Corners light drawing by Marc Ngui SEE THE WHOLE STORY >> Video Game Epiphanies is a catalogue of formative virtual experiences. The nomadic lifestyle is coming to a close. After 5 years of uprootedness, Marc and I will be moving to a new home for 1 February 2011. We have signed a year lease on a sprawling apartment in Cambridge, Ontario. The apartment is a portion of a 120 year old stone mansion and will give us the much needed grounding and the sheer volume and area of space needed for larger, more ambitious works of art. In the meantime, for the month of January 2011 we are house sitting in our old university town of Waterloo, Ontario. It’s in the snow belt, oh yes, it’s very peaceful and quiet. I have been balming my impatient pangs of biding time in a transition space by sewing up and embroidering one Happy Sleepy after another. SEE THE WHOLE STORY >>
Relax, Oh Yeah, to the Day I wrote the words and drew the word bubble. Marc did the rest. Oh yeah. The drawing shows The Tourists, two of Marc’s recurring characaters that have so far haunted pages in his sketchbooks here and there and are starting to make more regular appearances, such as in this postcard. |
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