I’m Shirley Marquez, and I’ll be your blogger. I’m going to be writing here regularly about art at Brooklyn is Watching; I’ll mostly be looking at new installations, but I may write about existing pieces from time to time. Besides enjoying art and music, I’m a model, and I was a greeter at Virtual CSI:NY.

Just before the weekend, Fearchar Enoch placed two works; he has already described them in an email that was blogged here by Amy Freelunch. In short: Fearchar took two pictures and used the images as both the sculpt texture for the prims and the image on the prim surfaces.

Fearchar raises the question: is it art? In large part, that depends on your feelings about found art; that is, art that is discovered by the artist rather than being intentionally created as art. The original pictures (if they were applied to a normal flat surface) would be art in the more traditional sense, but the sculptured prims are happy accidents. To my eye they are successful accidents.

Fearchar’s first object (shown below) is an image of the BIW tower. As a shape, this is the more interesting of the two pieces; I found the play of angles and colors fascinating. The second is Fearchar’s profile picture; the interest here is the enigmatic hint of a face, distorted by the complex shape of the prim.

What I would change: lose the rotation script. I would have preferred to be able to enjoy these sculptures at leisure and use my camera to choose my own angles, rather than having them constantly rotate. I would also like to see the original texture for the Tower sculpture; you can see Fearchar’s profile picture by looking him up in Search.

As always with sculptures, still pictures can’t capture the full effect! Come examine yourself, and move your camera to get different points of view. Try forcing different times of day; I especially liked Sunset.

Posted by Shirley Marquez on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 at 5:49 pm.