Sun K. Kwak

Sun K. Kwak is an American based artist who uses Tape on her art pieces. Her work ties in close to my former works using Masking tape. I find her work inspiring as she uses black matt tape in an innovative new way as an art form. Her pieces are done on large walls in museum spaces and she likes to describe her work as 'space drawing'. Her pieces manipulate a space simply yet effectively.

 

 

Here is a video of Sun discussing her work...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HKDPXLJYPc&feature=player_embedded

Masking Alley

 

Using the same process as before with the masking tape, I attempted to make a piece which is more defined and contains an image. An alleyway is what a tried to draw.

 

 

I like the lines of this piece. It looks as though it is a kind of print. The lines give the alley perspctive as you look back further into the piece.

 

 

I added one final layer of red paint to the piece to see what the results would be like. It didnt turn out quite how I would of liked it as I had difficulty removing the tape because the paper was too thin. I plan on re-doing the piece on a pice of card. Although I will be keeping the scale. I like how the image is by no means an attempt at a replication and has its own character. Although ugly and crude it has a certain impact to sustains interest.  

As an after thought, more for experimentation than anything else, I replaced the torn holes with newspaper clippings. I chose newspaper clipping because of the fact that alleyways are notorious for there appearances in the news. before you enter an alley words are running around in your head creating trepidation.   

 

 

Masking tape..

I am now inspired by the different layers that make up the wall of an alley, which would include layers of concrete, plaster, mold, rust, paint and pealing paint, which would be laid bear to the world because of time and general wear and tear.

 

 

This is one of my first experiments which I think was very successful. I stuck random lenghts of masking tape on blank paper and painted a layer over it. I repeat this process adding 3 more layers of tape. I then removed the tape, attempting to be careful to not remove the under layers of paint with the tape. I found that the process is what makes the piece so impactful as it is a different method of drawing.

 

I plan on pushing the boundries of this process and see what I can get out of it :)

Layerss!!!

 

I decided to experiment with layers considering that the walls of alleyways contain so many. That consist of; bricks, plaster, cement, graffiti, weeds and other organic materials and don't forget layers and layers of rotting, peeling paint.

The 3Dpiece below is inspired by the aspect of layers. I chose bright, bold colours (commonly seen in the graffiti covering the walls) to emphasize each layer. The piece is made from a sketchbook. I painted a page in a colour and then blew dry it dry before adding another layer.

 

I was over-all happy with the result. It is an aesthetic little piece, the bold colours making it eye catching. I would like to attempt this in a larger scale.

Mouldddddddddd

Done with Bricks for now, the bight vibrant greens of mould have caught my attention. Although not the next layer in a wall after bricks it IS anther layer common in urban Limerick, especially the ill-cared for alleyways. So yeah, here' more experiments with textures..

 

 

 

Tissue paper painted green

Thick paper scraped

 

A feather painted green and sprinkled with flour

 

A Jay cloth painted green

Plaster paris painted over

A sponge painted green

 



 I consider these all successful attempts at achieving the loo and feel of mould. My particular favourite was the sponge as it looked like it had microbes similar to the mossy, mould..

Brick Paining...

Here I made observational painting of Bricks. I attempted to make a layered affect by painting over tissue paper to look like peeling paint and mold. I like how it turned out, but it is very flat and 2 dimensional. Although particularly I like the contrast of colours.

 

 

Brick..The Foundation.

 

My attention at the moment is dedicated to bricks.. I love the ugly appeal of them as they are bare to the world. They are like the skeleton of the alley, the infrastructure. The first layer so to speak, before the walls have been claimed by graffiti or plaster, man or nature. So I went out and took some more images of bricks...

 

 

I love how nature has pushed true and still manages to grow amongst the concrete bricks.

 

 

 

Paint peeling off exposing the bricks below