Alex by Oliver Herring

    One of the most, if not the most, pioneering concepts for an museum I have seen came from the Museum of Arts and Design in the Slash: Paper Under the Knife exhibition during my museum visits with Bobby. The building gave a very modern outlook and the architecture was very innovative with the letters H and I showing. Taking our first step into the Museum of Arts and Design, we marveled at the structure laid right above our heads in the lobby area. It was a ship and waves of water made out of paper. I stared and was in awe for ten minutes at the white novel art above my head. I found out from the information provided by the the museum and it was the depiction of a storm upon Christopher Columbus's ship created by Andrea Mastrovito.
    We went to the fourth floor and went on our separate ways in observing the exhibition. The most pioneering idea in creating art with paper was the creation of Alex by Oliver Herring, in my eyes. It stood about 6 feet tall looking exactly like a man. Although Alex was made up of different colors from digital C-prints, he was just as vivid as a man. I could see the tattoos, eye lashes, and body hair when observing closely to the art creation. What was also very interesting was the information given by the museum that stated, "the physical properties of paper-flexibility, thinness, and fragility are metaphors of skin." This is true after observing in detail Alex because if I hadn't I would have never noticed the actual tattoos or hair on the body from the illusion of the multiple colors. Also this piece reminded me of the Ego and Id because of the multiple colors, not knowing which one is the Ego or the Id. This art piece shocked my imagination.
    The next piece that I captured my entire being was the untitled piece created by Dylan Graham. There are really no words to describe such a art work because it's so detailed and beautiful. The master-piece was done by hand as all the other art was in the Slash: Paper Under the Knife. The entire piece was in red fiber with intricate twirls throughout the art work. There were so many objects included in one work. There were two huge dragons in the middle, Constellations of the big dipper, little dipper, and Orion, the sun, human-beings, flowers,a tree, and the Chinese zodiac of all twelve animals. I wonder how much precision and time does it take to complete such a large piece art. I couldn't find any photo online for you to see here, however, here's the link to the Museum of Art and Design if you want to take a look at it.

Dylan Graham:

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