Fence

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image 34″ x 36″, Edition of 7
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There’s so much of the everyday stuff around us that, one day, will go from ubiquitous to rare. Chain-link fences are, I think, one of these things. The rise in worth of metal, and the declining price and improving strength of other materials will provide us with a new type of ubiquitous fencing. Frank Gehry famously used chain-link on his home in Santa Monica showing that the mundane can be reformed into something interesting and striking.

This particular fence surrounds a high school football field in Indiana. I used object distribution techniques to effectively explode the fence creating an all-around visual echo of the chain-link diamonds. After a few decades chain-link fences will be as quaint as split-rail fences seem today, and this piece will elicit nostalgia from the future’s elderly.

 

~ by bracketbracket on May 4, 2009.