Interesting meeting with Jin Choi and Thomas Shine today at the Scottsdale Modern and Contemporary Art museum. The husband and wife duo, both architects, Jin with a fine art background and Thomas with an engineering background, create public art installations.
They described two previous installations. "The Lace" in Amsterdam and "The Urchins" in Singapore. Then introduced "Arizona!" A sculpture that will stand 8 feet tall and 650 feet long. This structure of hand crocheted lace ribbon will elegantly meander over and around the Arizona Canal at the Scottsdale Waterfront. It will be installed November 2018 and remain for one year.
Currently they are recruiting crochet artists to be part of this project. I am going to help out. Anyone else interested?
Thomas Shine and Jin Choi presentation
"The Lace" hangs over a canal in Amsterdam. Based on a bobbin lace bonnet.
Fastening the crocheted pieces to fishing net with 10,000 zip ties! The fishing net supports the crochet art work for hanging.
Erecting "The Urchins" in Singapore.
Putting the pieces together with metal frames to get the spherical shape of a sea urchin.
Each sea urchin had 22 longitudinal curved frames and three circular horizontal frames.
The "Arizona!" Sculpture is based on famous eroded rock formations like Antelope Canyon.
wire ribbon to create a scale model.
Digital image that was created for the art installation proposal.
One strip of the detail in the crocheted ribbon that will be created many times to get 650 feet in length.
An actual piece of the poly cord crocheted art piece.
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