So we left off with the sculpture as an extention artists / various sculpture artists...

Tim Hawkinson from San Francisco Bay is yet another one of these artists. One of his most famous pieces entitled uberorgan, is a stadium sized bag pipe type instrument. Tim was quoted to say hes always been fascinated by noise and music and its influence. He also made a bird out of his own fingernail clippings and a large scale tree made of card board which i always like that analogy of the idea of trees made of paper, cardboard. etc... 

Ann Hamilton from Lima, Ohio specializes in sculpture, but also used mediums from installations, photographs, videos, etc... A piece she is well known for was her tooth pick suit, in which a suit was carely woven with toothpicks in a porcupine like style,  many of her pieces are thought to be sensual and often deal with fabrics and film. Much of her work doesnt influence the body in the way we are talking about, one piece she did do that does however was her mouthpiece camera taking a picture everytime she opened her mouth giving you a strange view of the world as if you have been eaten by a whale and are looking out to escape! 

Nick Cave, probably my favorite of this list, is a fabrics/textiles artist who also specializes in dance. His frist piece was a suit made of twigs which he initally thought he couldnt wear, once he wore it he discovered it had noisy capabilities earning it the name sound suit. This started a revelation for nick and he kept going with it making several more suits. These influence or represents the human form very blatantly but in ways never seen before, the mixture of creative photography and motion (dance) just photographs so well and looks so bad ass. i really like the idea of the natural coming into context with the unnatural, like a suit and twigs, its an ironic opposite and i really like the idea of them harmonizing together. a short film that will completely fill you in on "sound suits"  is below, check it.



He has many sound suits by now and they are just getting better, more wild with color and more perfected. Below are some other versions of his sound suits. 

    

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