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Making birds with LANwire, AU 호주/ 블레어 초등학교 /랜 케이블로 새 만들기
좋아은경 2014. 5. 29. 16:30레이첼 카슨 생일을 즈음하여, 호주 애들레이드힐의 블레어 초등학교에 초대받았습니다. 두 반 25명의 친구들을 만나 철사로 새 만들기 워크숍을 진행했습니다. (관련 링크 호주 멜로즈 초등학교 워크숍)
Hello! I am Yoa, a wire sculpture artist from South Korea. I do wire art, I exhibit, show my works at galleries and do my wire workshops.
Today, we're going to make wire birds together. Before, I will explain how I got involved in wire art although I had no art, design education.
Let's take a look at a calendar. What do we do with old calendars? Throw them away or recycle? In my country, we commonly have recycling bins for paper, plastic, metal and glass, etc. So when we recycle calendars, we need to separate the metal spiral-bindings from papers. It's a bit bothersome but I did it every year.
One day, I visualized the round portion of spiral-binding as the leg of a bird that grasped branch, sitting. I immediately started to disassemble the calendar but left the last portion this time, straight rest of winding wire, made a bird shape that's sitting on a branch.
I made several more, titled them 'Silent Spring' from the same title of a lady called Rachel Carson's book. Have you ever heard of her?
Rachel Carson was an American marine biologist and author of 'Silent Spring' which published on 1962, recently celebrated 50th anniversary. It's all about caring for the environment as you are learning to do.
Silent Spring's famous opening chapter "a fable of tomorrow" is about a harmonious town polluted where no bird sang. The book warned about the indiscriminate use of pesticides, toxic chemicals destroy the delicate balance of nature. She alarmed the people and influenced the global movement on environment.
She greatly influenced me, too. Hoping my works make people think of her message, I've been working on it.
In 2013, My first solo exhibition 'Silent Spring; Letter to Rachel Carson' dedicated to her.
All the materials I used for my works are abandoned wires. Like twist-ties for wrapping gifts, foods and spiral-binding for calendars, notebooks, etc. So far, I still don't need to buy new materials. How many things are just become 'waste' so easily! Some people told me how it's a clever idea and I am lucky that there's so much dumped wire.
However, every time I hear that I feel like I want to cry! I rather there's no more waste so that I am having trouble to finding it.
Many people use metal things just one time and then throw them away when they are done. Often, we use them even without knowing that it passes through our hand. But the use of metals is more important than that. Of course not only metal, but also paper, plastic, wood, all other resources. If we design and plan well from the start, we can save lots of things. I believe it's possible to making essentially waste free.
Like the greencanvas calendar by Hoseob Yoon. It's a Green Design example, designed to reduce material, energy, process and to recycle with ease.
Can you spot the differences?
There's no Sundays and holidays, only black color printed, cut cover page size by one-third and... Yes! No spiral-binding! By eliminating binding the users should clip the papers of calendar every month. I am very glad that a lot of people willing to endure small inconvenience for sustainable living.
Let's make the wire bird!
First, choose a bird you'd like to make out of wire. Take a good look at the bird very closely. How does the bird look?
Drawing birds will help us have a closer look at the bird. Draw outline of it over and over again, as small as possible, more than 5 times.
You can start make your own wire bird if the shape of the bird is familiar enough. There is no particular way, using your drawing may help. If you need a hand just let me know.
Everyone did great job!
Did you know that we made birds using left over wires? It's LAN(Local Area Network) cable for internet, I found them in a neighbor's shed.
I hope you find the joy of making(as living) today. Moreover, I hope my workshop helped you to think about different ways of seeing things surrounding us and eventually about the earth.
Lastly, Here's a short quote from Rachel Carson that I want to share with you.
"In nature nothing exists alone."
Thank you!
Meet Rachel Carson + Make Little bird
Workshop on Wire Sculpture
Shape a wire bird using recycled material and share philosophy of Rachel Carson.
The workshop is designed to promote the reusing of materials minimise the amount of waste, raise awareness about environmental issues and increase appreciation of sustainable living.
Duration flexible, 50 - 90 minutes
Minimum age five
Max. number of participants 15
The workshop is open to anyone. No specific background is required.
For more information: yoayoa@gmail.com
Hello! I am Yoa, a wire sculpture artist from South Korea. I do wire art, I exhibit, show my works at galleries and do my wire workshops.
Today, we're going to make wire birds together. Before, I will explain how I got involved in wire art although I had no art, design education.
Let's take a look at a calendar. What do we do with old calendars? Throw them away or recycle? In my country, we commonly have recycling bins for paper, plastic, metal and glass, etc. So when we recycle calendars, we need to separate the metal spiral-bindings from papers. It's a bit bothersome but I did it every year.
One day, I visualized the round portion of spiral-binding as the leg of a bird that grasped branch, sitting. I immediately started to disassemble the calendar but left the last portion this time, straight rest of winding wire, made a bird shape that's sitting on a branch.
I made several more, titled them 'Silent Spring' from the same title of a lady called Rachel Carson's book. Have you ever heard of her?
Rachel Carson was an American marine biologist and author of 'Silent Spring' which published on 1962, recently celebrated 50th anniversary. It's all about caring for the environment as you are learning to do.
Silent Spring's famous opening chapter "a fable of tomorrow" is about a harmonious town polluted where no bird sang. The book warned about the indiscriminate use of pesticides, toxic chemicals destroy the delicate balance of nature. She alarmed the people and influenced the global movement on environment.
She greatly influenced me, too. Hoping my works make people think of her message, I've been working on it.
In 2013, My first solo exhibition 'Silent Spring; Letter to Rachel Carson' dedicated to her.
All the materials I used for my works are abandoned wires. Like twist-ties for wrapping gifts, foods and spiral-binding for calendars, notebooks, etc. So far, I still don't need to buy new materials. How many things are just become 'waste' so easily! Some people told me how it's a clever idea and I am lucky that there's so much dumped wire.
However, every time I hear that I feel like I want to cry! I rather there's no more waste so that I am having trouble to finding it.
Many people use metal things just one time and then throw them away when they are done. Often, we use them even without knowing that it passes through our hand. But the use of metals is more important than that. Of course not only metal, but also paper, plastic, wood, all other resources. If we design and plan well from the start, we can save lots of things. I believe it's possible to making essentially waste free.
Like the greencanvas calendar by Hoseob Yoon. It's a Green Design example, designed to reduce material, energy, process and to recycle with ease.
Can you spot the differences?
There's no Sundays and holidays, only black color printed, cut cover page size by one-third and... Yes! No spiral-binding! By eliminating binding the users should clip the papers of calendar every month. I am very glad that a lot of people willing to endure small inconvenience for sustainable living.
Let's make the wire bird!
First, choose a bird you'd like to make out of wire. Take a good look at the bird very closely. How does the bird look?
Drawing birds will help us have a closer look at the bird. Draw outline of it over and over again, as small as possible, more than 5 times.
You can start make your own wire bird if the shape of the bird is familiar enough. There is no particular way, using your drawing may help. If you need a hand just let me know.
Everyone did great job!
Did you know that we made birds using left over wires? It's LAN(Local Area Network) cable for internet, I found them in a neighbor's shed.
I hope you find the joy of making(as living) today. Moreover, I hope my workshop helped you to think about different ways of seeing things surrounding us and eventually about the earth.
Lastly, Here's a short quote from Rachel Carson that I want to share with you.
"In nature nothing exists alone."
Thank you!
Meet Rachel Carson + Make Little bird
Workshop on Wire Sculpture
Shape a wire bird using recycled material and share philosophy of Rachel Carson.
The workshop is designed to promote the reusing of materials minimise the amount of waste, raise awareness about environmental issues and increase appreciation of sustainable living.
Duration flexible, 50 - 90 minutes
Minimum age five
Max. number of participants 15
The workshop is open to anyone. No specific background is required.
For more information: yoayoa@gmail.com
