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| Sarah Sze, Triple Point, at Venice Biennale 2013 |
Regarding drawing, she says,
"I think of drawing in a much wider context — I think of it as the cursor on this page, the route you walk to work, the map I just googled for directions, or the print in the label in your t-shirt. I think of drawing as lines created in space, on the page, on a screen, or just mentally and emotionally to make sense of information or to convey information. So when artists draw it’s not about the page or the hand, it’s about connecting dots and the charting of complex information in whatever form that may take"
Considering that Sarah Sze's installations are "sculpture" comment on the way you see drawing as it relates to her artwork.
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Sarah Sze's work looks like a three-dimensional drawing to me. The chaos is actually quite organized, all the parts collaborating instead of contrasting. According to her definition of drawing, I think her work is actually drawing as well as sculpture. It shows how objects interact in space to form new things.
I find the detail of her sculptures pretty fascinating, too; the more you look, the more there is to see.
Sarah Sze's artwork, although three dimensional, are references to her two dimensional counterparts. Her artwork encompasses the lines and directions captured within drawings - many of which could be translated into a drawing. The nature of her sculptures are complex as well as simple in the sense that there is a lot of different things going on and requires time to make, but at the same time her sculptures could be translated on to paper and could just as easily be passed off as a drawing. The interactions betweens the elements of her pieces is one that exists among drawings and sculptures, so they can be easily compared with respect to Sze's work.
I think that drawing and Sarah Sze's sculptures are both different but also alike. Because a sculpture is 3D and a drawing is just 2D, her work gives viewers a more interactive and realistic feel than a drawing would. She also gives viewers more angles from which they could admire her work. Drawing and her sculpture are alike, however, in the sense that both are not random; both are orchestrated and whatever is there is meant to be there. As Holly Block said, "It is almost as if you’re looking at a world frozen in time," and a drawing could also be seen in this way since it's an non-moving piece of art. Her sculptures also relate to drawing in that each can be made into the other: you can draw her sculptures and sculpt her drawings.
Sarah Sze describes her artwork as an "organized chaos", which also applies to her ideas on drawing. She does not limit herself to the most well known sculpture or drawing ideas, and she finds art in unusual places. She uses many random pieces that may seem like they do not belong together, to create something that exists in harmony and creates a beautiful piece. Drawing works the same way, if you take apart a drawing you will find many random lines and shapes, and many times when you zoom in on a drawing it doesn't look quite right, but when you examine the piece as a whole it begins to form something else. Many components of her pieces also involve sculptures that convey movement, just like drawings can.
Like Sarah Sze, I think of drawing as lines in space, so I think her sculptures can also be seen in a 2-dimensional way. It would be possible to draw her sculpture on a sheet of paper, so I think that is how it is related to drawing. Her organization is well-thought out and purposeful just like something that could be drawn on paper.
Sarah Sze's sculptures are reminiscent of drawing in the way that even the most chaotic of drawings have a certain level of organization. The structures that she creates are indeed chaotic, yet one knows that a lot of planning and arranging went into the finished work. Drawing is a lot like that. No matter how "random" and unplanned one tries to be, a pattern always forms (such as how simple scratches on the paper can morph into spirals or the peaks and valleys of a zigzag - those are patterns). This is just the way our brains work; We find structure in the most seemingly trivial of actions. Sze's work is more than a handful of scraps tossed onto the floor and called art. If one can think of her work as parallel to a disarray of scribbles on blank paper, it is, on the grand scale, a jumble of pieces. Yet, in the details - focused in on the zigzags and the patterns and the beautiful way certain creative tangents overlap and intertwine - it is her mental processes, the intangibilities of her imagination, communicated. If it's purpose is "to convey information," then those processes are her information.
Sarah Sze brought up something I would have never considered, that drawings are not just limited to a page and a hand. Focusing on her sculpture "Triple Point", I found it really interesting that it did actually look two-dimensional. She has a very interesting way of being able to manipulate planes through changes in colors and lines. The fact that her sculptures are made of discarded items she found around Venice is amazing. In some of her other installments, I noticed that everything seems to be connected with lines. It seems as if she structured her instillation to follow a single line, which she then constructed around. This seems to mimic the way drawing starts of with basic shapes that are then changed to create beautiful pieces of art.
Sara Sze refuses to think in two dimensions. Her sculptures are outrageous and brilliant, and her perspective on drawing exceeds the two dimensional world. She thinks of lines as a three dimension art form, and in doing so creates shape and movement that is creative and unique. She understands how to construct space to form art, regardless of dimension. Her organized chaos captivates audiences and sparks questions that have rarely been asked before.
Looking at Sarah Sze's sculptures, I can definitely see where her ideas about drawing come from. Her art explores space as well as connects objects and ideas in a way that, I believe, helps her to explore the world around her. I personally could not even imagine creating the works that she does, which is why I believe that her sculptures really capture the idea that art helps to creator discover themselves in a way.
According to Sze, drawing isn't merely lines and shapes, but "about connecting dots and the charting of complex information in whatever form that may take". Sze's installations are seen as sculpture merely due to the fact that they are three dimensional. Sze utilizes the space around her to chart the "complex information" in the shapes she creates. If she were to attempt to be a drawer, she would be creating the same space she and convey the same information she does with her sculptures, but create it on paper, in two dimensions.
Just like sculpture isn’t limited to molding clay, drawing isn’t limited to two-dimensional design. Sarah Sze does not let a piece of paper limit the dimensions of her drawings. I see Sarah’s work as a flat sketch on paper that has been dragged into mid-air and frozen in time. As you walk around her work, you see different sides of her piece, sides that are not normally visible on a normal piece of paper. These pieces basically give life to her two-dimensional drawings, allowing sketches to reveal all of their ‘angles’ and perspectives. It is possible to draw Sarah Sze’s sculptures on a piece of paper, yet it is impossible to capture all of her sculpture’s layers and nuances in two dimensions.
Sze's work captures movement normally seen in drawings. She is able to create movement through objects normally regarded as ordinary in similar ways drawings can show spirals or water flowing. Sze's work is different from drawings in that the viewer can physically insert themselves and get lost in the work whereas viewers of 2D work can't have such an interactive experience. Her use of lines and planes makes her work similar to drawings and aesthetically interesting to the eye.
Sarah Sze's artwork would not be as effectively "disorienting" if there was not a well- thought out plan. Like Sze, I think drawings are like a map. Drawings create a a two-dimensional foundation that helps to visualize an intended purpose of a sculpture.
The interesting thing, to me at least, when I think about drawing in any context, is more illusory than can be expected. Allow me to clarify. No doubt, an incredible amount of depth, emotion, and culture can be conveyed through drawing, among other things, although a heavily utilized tool that any successful drawing uses to its fullest extent is the viewer's suspension of disbelief. Despite how detailed any one drawing might be, it can only display so much of any one person or thing. It is left up to the viewer to decide for themselves what impact that has on them. If Sarah Sze were to draw her incredible installation with even the most realistic features, the drawing could never capture the full extent of the installation, it could only provide a meager blueprint or an idea at best. In this instance, I suppose the best way I can express this is to compare each drawing to a facet of some unimaginably complex figure (a tesseract, perhaps?), where each individual drawing culminates to form the entire, 3-D model. Despite the somewhat flimsy nature of a drawing, it still has the potential to be able to allow one to visualize, or to paint a larger picture which could have more of an impact than the actual figure. Whatever the case may be, I see each drawing that may have come from the idea or the creation of Sarah Sze's installation as simply one dimension of the entire figure, but when each are allowed to come together, it forms something more complex, something more beautiful.
I find Sarah Sze’s logic to be interesting and I’ve never thought of drawing in that way. I feel that her artwork holds true to her logic as well—I see her attempting to redefine the functions of objects that have already specific purposes (such as water bottles, tables, lamps, etc.) by incorporating them into her sculptures. Here, their functions are limitless. However, I believe that this same freedom is allowed in drawings as well. While drawing you can always maximize your space and don’t have to be confined to a set space (ex. graffiti on walls or trains). In drawings, you can also redefine the functionality of everyday objects or even create your own objects and figures. Both sculpting are drawing are versatile in my opinion.
I think that drawings are just random shapes and lines that are put together to create one big picture. Sarah Sze's sculptures are basically 3D drawings. They are random bits and pieces, lines and shapes put together to create one big picture, or in her case one big sculpture. Her sculptures seem to be chaotic and all over the place but in reality they are organized. All the parts of Sze's sculptures have a purpose and play important roles to help the viewer see the bigger picture. Her sculptures captivates the viewer and coaxes them to have a second look.
I think how she considers her work is very interesting and there is a lot of validity to what she says. If you sum up drawing, it really is just 'making an image'. The way she thinks of drawing in the broad sense, maps, t-shirts, etc, are all just images. With her own methods, she is making an image, just in 3D. Her deliberate placement of objects are all just a product of her concept of drawing. While there is a complexity since you move around the space in order to visualize all the pieces of the sculptures, the view you get are all images. They become sort of ingrained in your head as a 2D image, even if it is 3D. Of course 3D mediums uses space and that interacts with the viewer in a different way than on paper, but that's beside the point.
All images can be summed further into information, ideas, or concepts. In her way, loads of mental information is taken in by the viewer, in the form of spacious chaos and whatever materials she had used. She makes a huge amount of images, all encapsulated in one piece, all visible since you are able to move around and see from different angles all the parts that make the whole.
Sarah Sze's "organized chaos" may be three dimensional but also reflects the two dimensional characteristics of a drawing. I believe that her sculpture is a myriad of drawings on different planes, put together to be three dimensional. Her art "challenges your equilibrium while questioning your notion of spac" similar to what something two dimensional can do but on a much larger scale in her case.
Sarah Sze's work brings about a feeling of chaos but when looking past the overwhelming amount of random items, one sees the patterns and application of the items to be compiled artistically for the final product. This is similar to a drawing. Essentially, a drawing is a sum of lines and curves and nonsense. But when one looks at the over all piece, it is an organized well thought out drawing.
As anne said, it definitely looks like a form of 3d drawing. It looks something that would be pretty similar to what I would draw on paper. something that is abstract in idea, but once you get it, makes total sense
The article definitely was correct in stating that her art is disorienting. Though confusing, it reminds me somewhat of a playhouse devised by a child: very scattered and fun. I think visiting one of her installations would be fascinating because there is so much to consider...why did she place this here and that there? Another interesting thing about her work is the interaction of two and three dimensional objects, something that clearly contributes to feelings of confusion while "experiencing" her artwork.
Sarah Sze's sculptures are very similar to a 2D drawing. They embody a drawing but add an interactive and more real feeling to the art. Is allows the work to be viewed from multiple angles, but it isn't random, there is a purpose for everything. I also think it is interesting, that you can draw her sculptures and sculpt her drawings in order to achieve the same feeling. I think this really shows how all forms of art are connected.
Her drawings relate to her artwork like a guideline to her sculptures. Sculptures can easily be conveyed in drawings with the way we can draw different dimensions. Just like drawings can look so real that they are coming out of the piece of paper. Both of these ideas are the same thing, just created in a different way.
Sarah's work is like a look in to time or that is what people say. To me Sarah's work is like she is trying to take a two dementonal idea like looking it in ahole or at a sertan angel to a 3 dementonal world. At the same time i think she is trying to say somethig about the world like how we are not perfect and how you dont need to be organized to get some were in life contradictory to the idea that you do that is found in schools. over all i think sarah is takeing the idea of organized choas to a hole new demention.
I think that Sarah Sze's work is vary interesting. If i was there i would have to get out or the chaos but i do have to say that it is chaos. when i think of two demetional drawings i see them as the same thing as three demetional sculptures. the only diference is that three dementional is in space and two dementional is not in the same kind of space.
Although I couldn't capture much of what her sculptures represented, I do get the idea of how she wanted to portray pathways by connecting objects. We don't exactly see it as a drawing because the things pop out at you, but the way in which they are placed do take a certain direction, just like lines and shapes would be in a drawing, makes it 3D. Since her pieces seem out of place, the sculptures seem to make no sense, but it makes a viewer want to get a closer look to try and connect everything and get a better understanding kind of like if it were to be a picture inside of a picture.
In Sarah Sze’s work we can definitely see that one of the main things in her artwork and what it is based on is lines. One thing I also notice is many connections, between the artwork and the collection as a whole. Sze’s artwork also contains many layers, it isn't all on one level and I think that drawing all of that out most likely helped her visualize where she could put things so that they would look the best. It’s amazing how she took things that looked totally unrelated but made it work and flow all together as one collective piece.
THIS IS ORGANIZED CHAOS, NOT UNLIKE THE SITE OF AN ARCHEOLOGICAL DIG.
I think this quote is a great summary of Sze's artwork. Just like a drawing can get very complicated with all the little details the artist has put into it, so too can a three dimensional piece of art.
It's almost amazing how she took totally different pieces and merge them into one piece of artwork.It's extremely chaotic so much that it's organized in a sense. The pieces she chose to display in her artwork are composed of very distinct and sharp lines. Also, the simplicity of the pieces she puts together allow the piece to look beautiful instead of extremely random. How the various colors compliment each other and the structure of the shapes throughout the structure allows you to compare Sze's work to a drawing.
I agree with how Sze views her work as cursor of the page because as soon as you look at the work you instantly find one shape or path that you follow until it runs out or another catches your attention. I think of this as a three dimensional drawing because of the shapes and lines. I like the way she puts each smaller piece in the bigger piece to show that everyone had there own part and you just chose which part you want to focus on or enhance.
I think that Sarah Sze uses her building materials, whether it's wood, plastic, or metal, to create lines and movement, just like you would using a pen and paper, but here the lines move through space instead of being confined to a two dimensional plane. The swooping and swerving of her 'lines' convey movement on a greater scale, and in reality, viewed from any one angle, her sculptures do just kind of look like massive drawings that have escaped he fetters of paper. And just as you use lines to connect the elements of your drawings, she connects the focal points of her culture using what are effectively just 3 dimensional lines.
Sarah Sze's sculptures are essentially a 3D rendition of a 2D drawing. Her installations seem disorienting at first, but only because of the depth and perception of the pieces. I think that if you disconnect yourself from the initial perplexity of it and look at it more simply, you are able to see and appreciate the beauty of it and realize that it is well thought out and organized. What I think is interesting about Sze's artwork is that it can be a completely new piece of artwork from every different angle. That is what makes it a bit different from a traditional drawing-- each angle creates a different "drawing," so the possibilities are endless.
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