Elizabeth Whiteley
As a fine artist, I treat squares, and their triangular subdivisions, as creative shapes to be explored and transformed into sculptures that represent my personal expression and have a unique presence.
I use fiberglas screening as my material. The flexible planar surface responds to warping, wrapping, curving, and torquing. The finished sculpture is changeable in response to light conditions. Gravity and tension affect it; volumes alternate with transparency. Moire patterns appear. On close inspection, the many squares of the grid slow the viewer’s eye down and encourage an appreciation of curved space.
I began with one square of fiberglas screening and manually folded it along a simple pattern. The process is somewhat like non-computational origami without creating sharp creases. The resulting black sculpture projects from a white canvas. The geometric energy is concentrated in the center.
The resulting black sculpture projects from a white canvas. I drew a square with a pencil line on the canvas to refer viewers back to the original geometric shape of the form.
To fabricate this sculpture, I diagonally subdivided a square
piece of screening into two equilateral triangles and manually
folded them along identical, simple patterns. The process is
somewhat like non-computational origami without creating sharp
creases. I joined the two forms. The geometric energy is
concentrated in the center.
The resulting black sculpture projects from a white canvas. I drew
a square with a pencil line on the canvas to refer viewers back to
the original geometric shape of the form.
I began with two squares of fiberglas screening and manually folded them along an identical, simple pattern. The process is somewhat like non-computational origami without creating sharp creases. I joined the two forms. The geometric energy is concentrated in the center.
The resulting black sculpture projects from a white canvas. I drew a square with a pencil line on the canvas to refer viewers back to the original geometric shape of the form.