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Publication Date
11-1-2014
Description
2nd PRIZE WINNER
Keywords
artists'books, Student Artists' Book Contest, first, award, 2nd prize
Disciplines
Book and Paper
Student Status
Graduate student
Year of Graduation
2016
Major
Graphic Design
Faculty / Course
Thomas Wedell and Nancy Skolos, Making Meaning
Materials + Techniques
Laser-cut metallic paper and museum board
Student Narrative
This series of artist's book are in response to the movie, "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control" by Errol Morris, in which four leading roles demonstrate an intense commitment to each of their off-beat career paths. I appropriate the implication of the mythology about Sisyphus and suggest in the work that the repetition of a determined action leads to the pleasure of the process rather than that of achieving a prescribed end result. The unfolding of the paper sculptures within each book mimics the unfolding gesture of book pages yet in a more dynamic and playful manner. The structures of the cover add more complexity to perceive and interact with the sculptures inside.
Recommended Citation
Meng, Scarlett Xin; Library, Fleet; and Collections, Special, "Modern Day Sisyphus" (2014). 1st Student Artists' Book Contest 2015. 28.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_bookcontest1st2015/28