Monday, 25 October 2010

Liverpool Biennial: Sachiko Abe


Drawing piece from 'Scissors Paper Film'.
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This live installation piece was very beautiful and consisted of using paper and illustration.

As the artist herself, sat high up on a ledge in the large space, she cut out paper into thin strips which fell across the room and collected together into a large mount in the centre of the room, in a 'rapunzel style' fairy tale way.

I found her drawings more inspiring and outstanding due to detailed they are and how no mistakes seemed to be made. The framed pieces seemed to be drawn with pencil and having attempted very detailed and repetitive myself, how clean they were seemed amazing. Her work seemed very clean and peaceful, but the drawings quite chaotic in their nature.

Her work inspired me, because I found myself doing similar style mark making already.