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Sarah Sze | December 8, 2009

Sarah Sze is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City. Recommended by my tutor,  like Sarah I like to work in spaces and work and build around my college. I finally have learnt to leave my safety zone my studio space and move out of my studio, looking at Sarah’s methods has made me become more courageous in my model building and to become more creative and inventive in my assemblage when it comes to space and use of materials. Sze uses ordinary objects to create strikingly original sculptures and site-specific installations. Her intricate works, each of which she constructs by hand, consist of unexpected and carefully arranged combinations of materials. Sze transforms these everyday objects into gravity-defying works in horizontal and tower-like formations that zigzag into the heights of gallery spaces.

The two above images show how Sze cleverly uses structure even aids to ease the weight of the complex sculpture

I am currently looking at Sarah Sze now as I am suspending hangers in the air all by 4 pieces of fishing line, I want to lose the fishing cut in the forthcoming months and challenge myself with other methods and reinforce my structures I currently using tie clips and twine but i want to be more inventive and am thinking of using skewers and wire. I hope using these materials to reinforce my sculptures will make my work more sturdy and stronger as a whole, so I am able to building on a larger scale and not to worry about the weight of the hangers failing under poor weak materials

A piece I am currently working on in my studio thanks to the high ceiling and lots of drain pipes and beams I am managing to work the  around room and create a sense of movement

Looking at Sarah Sze has made me learn to move out of my studio space and use the college grounds as my working space!

Images sourced from http://www.sarahsze.com/index.html