https://johnlauerart.com/blog daily 0.75 2021-09-02 https://johnlauerart.com/blog/dali-gay-greek-gods-amp-weeki-wachee monthly 0.5 2021-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1628384482326-Q8EC0MI5VP1N9JMLYMOI/Dali+skull.jpg Blog - Dali, Gay Greek Gods, & Weeki Wachee - Make it stand out Salvador Dali with Philippe Halsman, photographer/ L: In Voluptas Mors, 1951/ R top & bottom: behind the scenes. Dali also teamed up with Walt Disney, did you know? They collaborated on an animation short that was put on the shelf for some 58 years due to financial difficulties at the studio and was finally completed and released in 2003 as Destino. Here’s an interesting talk on a surprisingly fruitful friendship, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EExyENeJMWU&t=7s, and a documentary with even more visuals and talking heads, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9Dx3LCXi70. Later in their careers, they began work on a retelling of Don Quixote. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1628386265717-HX7RQJY6914ZSYN8LJ59/Arcimboldo.jpg Blog - Dali, Gay Greek Gods, & Weeki Wachee - Make it stand out Giuseppe Arcimboldo/ 1. The Four Seasons in One Head/ 2. The Jurist (detail)/ 3. Head of Herod (by a follower?)/ The Cook (upside down.) The “Great Grandfather of Surrealism,” his work was largely forgotten after his death in 1593 until rediscovered by Dali and others in the 20th century. You can see the connection to Dali, but also to early animation where anything can become anything else. Look closely. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1628384627085-G9ZB6DC1ON2T718MJH7I/Greek+Hydra.jpg Blog - Dali, Gay Greek Gods, & Weeki Wachee - Make it stand out Hydras on Greek vases, with Heracles and his nephew-or-is-it-his-lover, Iolaus. Part of the reason for going Greek is because I can. As a white American, it is clearly in our tradition to draw on the first stirrings of Western civilization to reinterpret for the modern world. I can’t as freely help myself to images from, say, Northwest Coast mask traditions or from African sculpture, much as I’m drawn to and am clearly influenced by them. Greek and Roman mythology, Medieval demons, Grimms’ fairy tales, Mother Goose, Norse mythology-Wagner-Tolkien-Game of Thrones, these I can plunder and make my own; the Chinese zodiac and Japanese samurai helmets, maybe I need a different tactic, as I do in fact have plans for these. It is also in our tradition to use Greek as code for gay. They don’t tell you that in 8th grade English. Zeus, Apollo, Orpheus, Heracles, Achilles, they all had same-sex lovers. Not so many boys as young girls, yes, but they’re there, often sanitized as close companions. It’s also true the ancient Greeks had a different understanding and acceptance of only a very particular set of relationships, different from our own, but still… For more than I can begin to parse: https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/assemblage/html/7/matthews.html. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1628384920177-EWOO27KNJ9NN4OJV9R21/Sargent.jpg Blog - Dali, Gay Greek Gods, & Weeki Wachee - Make it stand out John Singer Sargent/ L: Hercules and the Hydra, 1922-25/ R: Hell, 1903-16. In recent years there’s been another look at Sargent following the discovery of a cache of nude charcoal studies of men and a finished nude portrait of a favorite African-American sitter that he never exhibited publicly in his lifetime. A “confirmed bachelor”, he is thought now to have had a more sensual private life than his society portraits suggest. He may well have been hiding in plain sight. For more: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/the-hidden-sargent-39/. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1628455983245-862FBZO4UESCUE6HX8I2/snakes.jpg Blog - Dali, Gay Greek Gods, & Weeki Wachee - Make it stand out Snakes, the real thing. Creepy enough, but as design, gorgeous. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1628455264117-U9RR576GS9IYOD2E39ZW/WW5.jpg Blog - Dali, Gay Greek Gods, & Weeki Wachee - Make it stand out The world famous Weeki Wachee mermaids, circa 1960s and 70s. They have better tails now. Yes, that lady in the lower right is about to eat a banana underwater. Her companion is drinking a Coke. To see this and more cheese in action, catch this video, Beauty in the Deep, 1961: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCNO-NE4-Vk&t=287s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1628454539344-N90CW2EBAGYJEBVKIO1K/WW4.jpg Blog - Dali, Gay Greek Gods, & Weeki Wachee - Make it stand out The mermaids today, well, pre-Covid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1628385287188-LCAI2O1G4EAMPDYCT2RH/HYDRA+strip_JohnLauerART.jpg Blog - Dali, Gay Greek Gods, & Weeki Wachee - Make it stand out HYDRA: “converted” into developable surfaces ready to be flattened, cut, and reassembled in paper. I’m super excited to see this realized IRL. I’m clearly drawing on the things I learned while making HYENA, https://johnlauerart.com/blog/hyena, and the HEAD-&-SHOULDERS REDO, https://johnlauerart.com/blog/wei-wei-wings-amp-drag-queens. Hope it works! I expect it to take several tries. https://johnlauerart.com/blog/wei-wei-wings-amp-drag-queens monthly 0.5 2021-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1625791905713-SRZJKZW06TYYVIOC7T2O/strip+1c.jpg Blog - Wei Wei, Wings, & Drag Queens - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1625778027899-JNMC95AOVFZ66GSX3QOE/strip+2.jpg Blog - Wei Wei, Wings, & Drag Queens - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1625791936142-LOS0XSRVSR0PGG9TV26V/strip+8b.jpg Blog - Wei Wei, Wings, & Drag Queens - Make it stand out Ai Wei Wei/ Life Cycle at the Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles. Bamboo and silk. https://www.designboom.com/art/ai-weiwei-life-cycle-10-05-18/ I think the multi-headed rooster-creature is my favorite. I also love seeing visible structure and “unfinished” forms. But note the rounded limbs and torsos. Like balloon animals, they can’t help but be happy, like Mickey Mouse all made of circles. I want something twisted and bent, distorted. Nearly ugly. Angry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1625778106361-3W9LE73F1IJ5UMUVAX10/strip+3.jpg Blog - Wei Wei, Wings, & Drag Queens - Make it stand out Stan Winston School of Character Arts/ wireframe made of foam and tape for a monster suit. https://www.stanwinstonschool.com/tutorials/how-to-fabricate-a-monster-suit-1-design-pattern-prototype This does amaze me. I will get this dvd and learn how to make one. I’ve experimented with enlarging my paper shapes and cutting them out of foam, but this looks like more fun. Still want to make my distorted un-fun shapes, though. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1625778159731-P70ACOZ0Z3W3789ULIO5/strip+4.jpg Blog - Wei Wei, Wings, & Drag Queens - Make it stand out Parade the Circle, Cleveland/ fantastical shapes constructed from coaxial cable, chicken wire, and papier mache. https://www.flickr.com/photos/clevelandart/sets/72157618828007008/show/ Coaxial cable is magic. It has a metal core that makes it easy to bend and retain its shape. The casing makes it easy to shoot a screw into to hold it together or to a wood member. Unfortunately, it’s getting harder to source as the technology has moved on. You kind of have to find a building where it’s been taken out of, I understand. Of course, I want a cleaner, more considered interior. This ad hoc mess won’t do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1626182227817-2GAH6GLPXAH59IT6U5IP/strip+5.jpg Blog - Wei Wei, Wings, & Drag Queens - Make it stand out Thickened veins forming the structural framework for a leaf, pitcher plant, and butterfly wing. This tight integration of skin and rib/vein/framework is what I am aiming for. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1625929007960-IYZNTC75EQAXEZRXCVOI/strip+11b+JohnLauerART.jpg Blog - Wei Wei, Wings, & Drag Queens - Make it stand out Earlier structural strategies: 1. twisted SKULL/ 2. ribs following curved joint lines/ 3. ribs following straight slices/ 4. original Head-&-Shoulders. An even earlier piece, GOAT, had no internal structure at all and can’t hold itself up as it’s all skin and no bones. The ribs following the joint lines in twisted SKULL proved to be a pain to figure out and assemble, especially given the severe distortions I put this head through. Slicing the form and adding ribs to create separate “pans” that I reassemble, in effect doubling the ribs each time the pans come together, created a different set of problems: the glue holding rib to rib and the pans together warps the watercolor paper. I also couldn’t spread the glue fast enough over a large surface before it dried. In later pieces such as LION-SNAKE and CHIMERA where I used a heavier polypropylene frame to attach the separate paper pans with plastic rivets, the problem was that the paper expands in high humidity while the polypropylene stays put, causing waves in the ribs and making the pans pull away from the frame. Worse, I couldn’t always get my hand deep into the heads to pop the rivets closed without crumpling the delicate 90-lb watercolor paper. You can see where that got me here: https://johnlauerart.com/blog/all-about-process Something has to happen if I want to go big. In paper. It makes more sense to switch to foam or reed-and-rice-paper, but no. I seem intent to figure out a possibly avoidable problem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1625929064267-AHE4O5NNZ7Y0AHL9U6TU/strip+10+JohnLauerART.jpg Blog - Wei Wei, Wings, & Drag Queens - Make it stand out Head-&-Shoulders Redo: wireframe made of 3-sided paper trusses skinned and painted a light gray. I took a headstand I made some time ago to support a series of helmets, elongated it, and found a way to make a stable framework that followed the significant lines of the form. This won’t mean anything to non-modelers, but the trick to making the curved members less onerous to figure out was to use the original T-splines model, not the converted-to-paper-shapes one. Found a number of other tricks that helped untangle some other issues I had previously, like bringing that circular collar piece inward so it holds the 4 vertical trusses in place but isn’t expressed on the exterior. I quite like revealing the structure within. It certainly makes it easier to glue from the inside. You can see the problems below when I insist on closing the form. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1625929134180-OZ2LFD3E7O6V0W916LTQ/strip+13b+JohnLauerART.jpg Blog - Wei Wei, Wings, & Drag Queens - Make it stand out 1. Original Head-&-Shoulders in 90-lb watercolor paper/ 2. Top of 90-lb head/ 3. Top of 140-lb head/ 4. Head-&-Shoulders Redo in 140-lb oil paper. One step forward, two steps back. The 90-lb watercolor paper cuts much cleaner and fits more tightly together than the 140-lb oil paper. I can also glue from the inside when I’m using the slice technique, so I avoid the crunchy stuff that happens when I have to glue from the outside and paint over it. However, the 90-lb is mighty delicate; I can only use a whisper of glue or it will warp, and I can’t easily paint it after putting a form together even if I’ve soaked and stretched the paper beforehand. The 140-lb oil paper is hardier but more fibrous so that the cut edges stand up slightly, highlighting each joint. Gluing from the outside isn’t so bad in itself because the glue is transparent; it’s when I paint over it with something other than clear matte medium that it becomes visible and irritating. A possible solution may be to stretch and paint the 140-lb before cutting so I’m not painting over glue and to keep areas of the form open so I can get my hand inside to glue. I much prefer open formwork and exposed structure anyway. Solid forms do not interest me. The work has to be hollow, and imaginatively enter-able. Have no idea what that says about me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1626182440702-XYDRD1NDAS2U8B8207GX/strip+6.jpg Blog - Wei Wei, Wings, & Drag Queens - Make it stand out An assortment of queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race: 1. Peru Envy/ 2. Alyssa Edwards/ 3. Symone/ 4. Peru Envy, again. Sometimes you look up and see that you’ve been outdone by …drag queens. These are fantastic sculptural shapes. Reminds me of looking up from the hats I was trying to make in the mid ‘80s and seeing I’d been outdone by the haircuts coming out of the East Village. One artist used the same clay she used in her ceramic work to mold her hair into the most fantastic shapes. Of course I can’t find the photos. https://johnlauerart.com/blog/hyena monthly 0.5 2021-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1620869189440-WQNMKZW26RHDPJJL31F5/0-5+JohnLauerART.jpg Blog - HYENA - Make it stand out Visual References for HYENA. Note the length of the neck and the way the elbows jut out. Oh, and the lovely smile. For more on hyenas and why I’m drawn to such an ungainly creature, check out this INSPIRATION blog post: https://johnlauerart.com/blog/bacon-hyenas-amp-how-to-wrap-5-eggs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1620859176324-88QQ2DEJKWD9HPFE5V29/1-5+JohnLauerART.png Blog - HYENA - Make it stand out L: initial sketch/ C: first steps in modeling/ R: starting to block out the inner head. Hard to believe this would turn into anything, but already you can see an inner beast starting to rear up. The reference drawing is from the classic, Artistic Anatomy by Dr. Phil Richer, the most beautiful anatomy book I’ve seen. The software I use is T-Splines for Rhino, but Rhino 7, just out, has new sub-d tools which will do nearly the same thing, so I may be switching over soon. For more detail on my ‘puter-to-paper process, check out this blog post: https://johnlauerart.com/blog/all-about-process https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1620859295425-0O5OQRMZQ3U615V6371W/3-5+JohnLauerART.png Blog - HYENA - Make it stand out The road not taken. L: intersecting inner and outer forms/ C: inner form extending through forehead/ R: ribcage. I frequently keep multiple schemes going and work back and forth until one emerges as the most doable. It was important in HYENA that the dark inner form would be made by flipping the surface of the lighter outer form back on itself so that one form was the reverse side of the other. Intersecting surfaces would not do. What I chiefly disliked about this direction, though, was how the inner hyena head became too obviously a mask for the outer human form. The two heads need to be more intertwined and visually inseparable. The ribs I rather liked and will return to on another piece. The time I spent exploring how to structure them was pulling me away from finishing the head(s). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1620859380189-7GEUWHLFFIX4R6YK7AEI/4-5+JohnLauerART.png Blog - HYENA - Make it stand out The finished “organic” model. Sadly, what was meant to be elbows and forelegs jutting out look more like droopy Bugs Bunny ears and the evil grin just looks dopey. Still, I forged ahead, thinking that not entirely liking a piece would free me up to experiment more with the later stages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1620859451883-I9F7YK0IR401F5KDJNZR/5-5+JohnLauerART.png Blog - HYENA - Make it stand out L & C: converting fully organic surfaces into those that can be flattened and cut out of paper/ R: each surface gets a number. There are actually a lot of choices to be made when figuring out how each 4-sided quad of the surface will bend. It comes down to which edges will flow continuously and which will abruptly stop and change direction. While I lose some smoothly rounded transitions at this stage, I also gain more definite edges that sharpen the form and catch the light nicely. I like to think it recalls the sharpened lines in traditional Northwest Coast masks without being remotely imitative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1620859548899-B55FXHME9EK082ZOX0P6/6-5+JohnLauerART.png Blog - HYENA - Make it stand out Two-thirds of the sheets cut by my trusty digital die cutter. I’m so thankful I don’t have to cut these by hand. I assemble the piece by matching the number on the cut-out piece of paper to the number on the digital model. I have my system down; it’s not that hard to keep track. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1620859610954-8PA7ZJFDNHSNJHDA7398/7-5+JohnLauerART.jpg Blog - HYENA - Make it stand out Assembly underway. Individual paper strips are taped edge-to-edge and glued from the inside with a squeeze bottle equipped with a tiny nozzle, like piping a cake. The joints are stronger if I later remove the tape and coat the exterior with matte medium or clear gesso. At this stage I was pleased to find that the shoulders are providing a nice sturdy base. No wonder why busts traditionally include them, duh. The curved spine is also doing its job holding the head in place. The tongue I thought would provide another point of balance, but I think because I didn’t provide a direct connection to the upper lip area, it really isn’t doing much structurally. Unfortunately, at this stage I was also finding out that … https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1620859682272-A4DAUT80L6HLLU892QFQ/8-5+JohnLauerART.png Blog - HYENA - Make it stand out Structural mishaps. L: center post I regret having to add/ R: warped surfaces subdivided into long skinny strips that can twist. … Oops, the mouth is not connecting and the head is sinking into the chin. A lesson I’m relearning all the time: if I want the structure to be integral with the skin —and I do— then best I develop it while I’m still modeling the skin, and not try to shoehorn it in after the form is set. A closed form would be easier to structure, but I want an open form made by a surface twisting and turning on itself to create a double head. I also don’t want to be too obvious with the structure, which makes the fact I ended up with a center post blocking the open cavity of the mouth especially bothersome. I may never show this piece in public because of that. For future heads, I’m thinking now of: starting with a kind of curving, viny framework made of 3-sided truss-like members also made of paper. The framework would provide a secure place to attach individual pieces of paper to and pin them in the correct position in space. subdividing warped surfaces into long skinny strips that can twist and turn more easily. painting in full color. I have a number of strategies for doing it so it looks integral with the way I construct the heads. See problems with painting paper below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1620870764579-KVT9Q5LHPT2PKJB8LLN9/9-5+JohnLauerART.jpg Blog - HYENA - Make it stand out The assembled paper head, in white. Bigger than I thought it’d be. The reverse surface of the paper really needs to be a different color so you can see the outer human head turning itself inside out to become the darker beast inside. Still testing how best to do that, and when: Once completed? It’s mighty hard to get my brush into all the hidden corners and to get an even paint surface. Before I cut? If I soak and stretch the paper as with traditional watercolor paper, I risk weakening the paper, especially as I need to paint both sides. If I staple and paint without soaking first, I get a sheet full of waves that don’t sit flat. That clearly won’t do. Intricate areas with many joints and smaller pieces of paper are somewhat easier to paint. They also get stronger as the joints are filled. The relatively simpler areas with larger, broader, flatter pieces of paper are the more problematic as they’re most likely to buckle and warp. Not a good look. So many more experiments to do. So many heads ahead. https://johnlauerart.com/blog/bacon-hyenas-amp-how-to-wrap-5-eggs monthly 0.5 2021-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1611533483160-7MZ05SXPSB6TCP5994PZ/02+Francis+Bacon+1.jpg Blog - Bacon, Hyenas, & How to Wrap 5 Eggs Francis Bacon/ L: Self-Portrait, 1969/ R: Study of Henrietta Moraes, 1969 I can’t do this, but it’s what I’m after. Much as I love his screeching beasts and molten wrestler/lovers, it’s the series of portraits I really go for. They are so moving to me. Sculptural and seemingly three-dimensional, they are also so much about paint and its handling. Cut paper as I’m using it is a fact; it can’t be as ambiguous or suggestive as fluid paint, and yet, as I mash and mold the organic model around in the computer, I’m thinking how can I really twist it out of realism and make it more alive, more mysterious, more real …and still make it hold together and stand up? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1611534130478-H70OPZVQZPPPLO5WBZQ6/03+Francis+Bacon+3.jpg Blog - Bacon, Hyenas, & How to Wrap 5 Eggs Francis Bacon/ Three Studies of Muriel Belcher, 1966 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1611672986948-SDSX6DVWELTDF2RE397Z/12+Francis+Bacon.jpg Blog - Bacon, Hyenas, & How to Wrap 5 Eggs Francis Bacon/ Three Studies of George Dyer, 1969 One of a number of famous interviews with David Sylvester. Trigger warning: incessant smoking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoFMH_D6xLk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1611606367097-MV8XOHKFJS3701CETPRC/05+Medieval+hyenas.jpg Blog - Bacon, Hyenas, & How to Wrap 5 Eggs Hyenas in Medieval Bestiaries Hyenas were thought to be hermaphrodites and change their sex regularly -one year male, the next year female -and were thus deceitful and unclean. Tore open graves and ate dead people, too, according to Medieval bestiaries. Along with hares (thought to grow a new anus every year, thanks to their own ambiguous genitalia) and weasels (thought to copulate orally), they were symbols of homosexuality in Medieval iconography. Don’t eat them, or you too will be afflicted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1611534210120-I5QUKVM7FK04KVAGXL9E/04+hyenas+in+wild.jpg Blog - Bacon, Hyenas, & How to Wrap 5 Eggs Hyenas in the wild: truly hideous There is some basis for the gender confusion. The females are somewhat bigger and more aggressive than the males… and sport a fully erectile 7” pseudo-penis made from an (amazingly) enlarged clitoris. There are even “testicles” where the labia are fused to form a lumpy pseudo-scrotum. Even researchers in the field get confused. The poor females have to urinate, get pregnant, and give birth to a two-pound cub through this tube. Giving birth cannot possibly be pleasant; there are very high incidents of 1) the pseudo-penis splitting, 2) cubs suffocating on the way out, and 3) first-time mothers dying during delivery. For more cringe-inducing descriptions -and pictures of the aforementioned genitalia, check out: https://scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/29/male-or-female-good-question/ https://ideas.ted.com/everything-you-know-about-hyenas-is-wrong-these-animals-are-fierce-social-and-incredibly-smart/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1611534355881-3Z2YBREHVU5J5WZ95X1J/06+Rainbow+LaGuardia.jpg Blog - Bacon, Hyenas, & How to Wrap 5 Eggs Rainbow LaGuardia: 27 LGBTQ faculty and staff interviewed by students at LaGuardia Community College Modern day hyenas: Do these folks look that fearsome to you? Amazing that even in our coastal cities, representation still matters, especially for young people who grow up badly isolated and without guidance. The oral histories at the root of this project are completely relatable as these folks talk about their bouts with religion, their families, their jobs, and relations with coworkers and even to their own community. https://www.laguardiawagnerarchive.lagcc.cuny.edu/EdPrograms/Shades_Landing.aspx https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1611703428145-6RP4YOMWOINNL2VMH4A5/13+Think+Pink+from+Funny+Face.jpg Blog - Bacon, Hyenas, & How to Wrap 5 Eggs Think Pink from Funny Face (1957)/ You can see the whole silly sequence here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbxXA70gvrA “Pink is for girls, blue is for boys” is just one manifestation of the male/female binary that many of us find awfully inconvenient and contrary to our lived experience, so I was pleased to read in The Secret Lives of Color (by Kassia St. Clair, 2016) that this hasn’t always been so. In the early years of the 20th century pink was actually suggested for boys as it was a stronger, more assertive color than blue which was more delicate and better suited for little girls(!) This is making me think the inner beast in HYENA could be a hot pink/ molten fuchsia bursting through an icy pale blue human head. In some of my double heads, as in HYENA, the inner head is formed by twisting the surface making the outer head back on itself, sort of like a Mobius strip. You can see this in the more “organic” computer model below: it’s all one convoluted surface, but the darker inner form is the reverse face of the lighter outer form. It’s harder to see in an all-white paper model, but I do plan to bring this out by painting one side of the paper one color, the reverse side another. To me this acknowledges the binary, yet the two forms are indivisible and interdependent. As they are in most of us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1611534550175-37US7SZEABJRTT4K7RGD/08+How+to+Wrap+5+Eggs.jpg Blog - Bacon, Hyenas, & How to Wrap 5 Eggs How to Wrap 5 Eggs, 1967 This came up because someone was so astute as to see a Japanese influence on my work. It’s not in the forms but in my use of material. Nothing extra or tacked on. Extreme simplicity, clever use of the materials at hand. These principles are also at the heart of Bauhaus pedagogy which every architecture student has been immersed in. It all came together for me as a sophomore when I saw an exhibit of traditional Japanese packaging, which must have been connected to the publication of the second book in this series, How to Wrap 5 More Eggs, 1975. There’s a purity here, a cleanliness of spirit which is so appealing and so modern. Funny I have it yoked to Hyenas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1611671115859-040WUCR9H1E2ILRQGW38/11+HYENA+3_JohnLauerART.png Blog - Bacon, Hyenas, & How to Wrap 5 Eggs “Organic” model of HYENA to be constructed in paper and painted Hideous, yes, though not in the way I had imagined. We’ll see where it gets in 3 weeks. https://johnlauerart.com/blog/full-blown-artists-statement monthly 0.5 2021-01-06 https://johnlauerart.com/blog/all-about-process monthly 0.5 2021-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1609518452192-86F5GG219QHKLFHFHF2D/01+PROCESS_organic-convert.png Blog - All About Process L: “organic” model of CHIMERA/ R: “converted” model of CHIMERA I start in the computer. I’m trained as an architect, not a character modeler, so there’s a lot of fumbling around to get something of interest, especially as one of the software programs I use, T-Splines for Rhino (now incorporated into Fusion 360, still a sore subject for some of us long-time Rhino users,) can be a bit cantankerous. It’s always a fight. Once I get something reasonable, I split the fully organic single surface along its significant lines and reloft between the lines to get what’s called developable surfaces that can be flattened, cut, and curved to recreate the form IRL. See, easy! But then there’s the question of it holding up. All the curves and ridges help, just as they do in thin-walled natural forms: leaves, shells, organs. But as the forms get larger, looser, and more open, which is what I’m after, they can quickly balloon out of shape without some sort of rib structure holding them together. I’ve experimented with a number of approaches, some difficult to retrofit after I’ve settled on a form. One way that works more often is shown below: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1609560045562-2ZW6DD6OM3MRQMV98VKG/02+PROCESS_slice+1.png Blog - All About Process L: WOLF sliced to make interior ribs/ R: pan sections of LION-SNAKE connected to corrugated polypropylene rib with removable plastic rivets, the kind used to hold model rockets together. Larger heads are sliced into sections and given a flat flange along the cut line which creates a kind of pan section not unlike those used in fiberglass molds. Where two pan sections come together, the two flanges back-to-back form a rib. Still larger heads have their flanges reinforced with a substructure cut from corrugated polypropylene that the paper pan sections are attached to with removable plastic rivets. It can be quite tricky getting my hand into some of these cavities to adequately press the rivets into place without crumbling the paper. Why the hell am I using it? In fact, for even larger heads, like a full size costume twice the size of twisted SKULL, I’ve experimented with EVA (basically, fun foam) thinking it would be more forgiving, which it is but of course has its own set of quirks to wrestle with. Once the pandemic ends and I regain access to a laser cutter, I’ll wrap that study up and see what we get. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1609560955770-80NHYIVITHUZXHMV78RV/02+PROCESS_slice+3.png Blog - All About Process L-R: slices of CHIMERA shown with flanges/ far R: doubled-up flanges form a rib where pan sections come together. By themselves the pan sections look quite abstract and interesting. Why don’t I stop there? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1609560134892-7NX54OYNI7AJ4YXAQD9A/03+PROCESS_flatten.png Blog - All About Process L-R: flattened surfaces of WARTHOG numbered and arranged on sheets to be cut with digital die cutter. I’m a careful hand cutter, but I say let robot work be done by robots —it’s way more precise and it saves my hand for more finicky tasks, like taping and gluing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1609560173893-FU4VXDGLU9M8NT6Y6UMD/04+PROCESS_taped.png Blog - All About Process L-R: sections of WOLF taped and ready for glue. 100’s of pieces of paper are taped together edge-to-edge and glued inside and out to form a tight continuous shell. Seeing the forms snap together is magic; removing the thousands of teeny tiny tape pieces is decidedly not. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fdcf643ef7d1b03795f0aa3/1609516691848-J4TCB2INMCULDANPDXD4/06+PROCESS_caverns.png Blog - All About Process L: the caverns of LION-SNAKE/ R: the caverns of CHIMERA. What I can’t yet get across in photographs of the finished pieces is how you get intriguing glimpses into these inner caverns and body cavities by peering into the open eyes and mouths of these creatures. May help if in the future I put all the color on the inside and/or left some obvious peepholes. Have to say, after all this, for my upcoming series of heads I’m going back to forming ribs and reinforced structure more integral with the forms instead of gridding it up as I’ve shown here. 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