July to Kate and Janet - Tara Donovan

These ran with just the names and I was pretty happy when I returned from my trip and found stamps that worked so nicely. I've had a hard time parting with these stamps. In my endless scrutinizing of details, I see things that I could point out that could have been better - but, I have an add-on today, so I will spare you the nit-picking.

When I read my post about the cool crate that was presented to the preparator at the museum and read the part about being hired to  work on some installations - I remembered the Tara Donovan exhibit. I haven't thought of her in a long time. Her *thing* is taking ordinary objects and using extreme quantities of the object to create sculpture that is -what- ? I'll have to read some reviews to see what words people choose to describe something that is very ordinary - but made extraordinary by doing something fairly simple.

The piece I worked on was a room filled with stacks of plastic cups.

That's pretty simple.

You know if you stack cups high enough, they will start to curve. So imagine a fairly large room filled with stacks of cups. The stacks are different heights ranging from about 12" tall to maybe 24" or maybe 30" - creating a landscape effect.

Here it is:

The view above is what it looks like if you are seated on the floor.

Below is what it looks like if you are standing.

Imagine getting paid to stack plastic cups all day.

Tara just comes up with the idea - and then assistants do the actual work. 

I'll post some other works tomorrow - this is not my favorite.

Although it was interesting to note how the piles of stuff affected the sound in the room.