Today, i wanted to write about Spencer Finch again. I couldn't stop thinking about his work and when i would search for other artists i kept coming back to his work. I said in my last post about him that he was insane. I still think he is. I just can't wrap my head aound the way that he thinks and creates his work. This piece above with the balloons, Finch was recreating the color of the sky over Coney Island in New Yok City. In alot of Finch's work, he uses color or recreates the color of something in a new space. Often times the color that he is creating in a new place was the color of the sky, sunset or a running river, all things that are already constantly changing. He freezes the color he chooses in time, not knowing if the color will ever exist the same way that it orginially did. This piece is the color of the sky over Coney Island on a particular day. We don't know if the sky will ever be that same blue again. He recreates these colors with balloons. He put different color balloons in the balloons to change the color and tone of it. He had to figure out exactly how much air to put in each balloon to make the colors come out the same in each balloon. I love this process because at first thought and glance it seems so simple, but it is not at all. I think that this kind of process is the same that i am working with. Making and matching the images for my diptychs seem like a simple task but it is so much harder than it seems.
After all the balloons were inflated into the mass you see above he hung it in Miami Florida. It is interesting to see the color difference and the photograph of this event is beautiful . I love this work because the idea is clear and clean cut. The process is complex, but the simple appearence of the outcome is simply delighting and at the same time astonishing. I hope for my diptych project to work and present with this ease and amazement.
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