Sunday, March 22, 2009

christian_faur

Artist Christian Faur is the Director of Collaborative Technologies in the Arts at Denison University in Granville Ohio. He works with shredded paper, hand cast encaustic crayons and mathematical formulas to create pieces that in addition to being aesthetically pleasing, say much more.

The art below was created with hand cast encaustic crayons:













In addition to his crayon work (1000 Names On Paper) is made from shredded paper that is printed with one-thousand of the most common names of those currently between the ages of eighteen and twenty-eight according to the Social Security Administration.
One Thousand Names On Paper:



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1 comment:

JOSHUA CAINE said...

very very berry! jk. that's a lot of crayons