June 10, 2009

Creating the Flock of Birds















You're beginning to see it, a flock of birds. Got the lines in. I taped it and it will look like an performance I think. Putting these wavy strings onto the poles with 5 volunteers, Kuang-Chu the transalater and one payed worker Mr. Kuon (or something) plus myself with this chinese had (realy comfortable with the heat!). Started at 6 this morning to connect the biggest one at down the site. Finished this fat one around 9:30 together with Mr. Kuong. Todays heavy work covererd my body all over with scarves and scratches from 'lu wei' reed, bamboo and grass. Like I've been in a Asian war one of my collegues said. It was a good day altough making the composition is hard to do. Its like drawing on a large scale paper in 3D. But fun: this is the real creating! The 3 angles from where you can see my work make it realy difficult to do the right thing. Often work like this is best to experience at the site. Had a good talk about the work I made today together with Jane (curator). Just talked about the composition and lines, nice to have some feed back and discussion. Tomorrow I will do some little changes and adjustments and fix it. So I am on sceduel! Everybody is. The works are looking good; all come to Taipei city for the opening on fryday. Anita and Sil are you coming?! 

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My work is site-specific. Natural surroundings together with the social and historical context inspire me. With my sculptures I add an extra dimension to the location. I use for my installations topical natural material often combined with cultural material. Materials like willow, oak, plants and trees, and man-made material like concrete, metal and shrink film. Recurring themes in my work are tension, movement, water and light. The intervention of people and natural elements like wind or growth can be a welcome addition to my work. I like it when the public mixes with my work and experiences my installation together with its surroundings. In the end, I want my installations to fit in the site where they are built showing an extra dimension and giving a suprise to the beholder.