Janet Ekman "1.26", Shanghai, 2017
If you are a student who graduated from Harvard but was rejected by seven art schools, what would you do? Is it to continue to apply? Or just change it? Janet Ekman, a sculptor from the United States, took a different approach to the art path and chose an art category that he had never touched before.
Fishing net: new way of sculpture
“My first satisfying sculpture was the result of collaboration with these fishermen. It is a self-portrait called 'wide hips.'â€
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Janet Ekman "She Changes", Porto, 2005
Janet Echelman's fishing net sculpture began with a failed exhibition in Mamalappan, India. After being rejected by seven art schools, she decided to embark on the artist's road alone. At first, she chose painting and finally got the Fullbright Scholarship ten years later and was invited to go to India to hold a painting exhibition.
Janet Ekman "1.26", Montreal, after the work was delivered to the ship in 2015-2017, Janet first arrived in Mamalappan, India. However, the tragedy is: the exhibition is about to open, and the work has not yet arrived, so Janet must find a substitute as soon as possible. This fishing village, famous for its sculptures, gave her the inspiration to try bronze sculptures, but before that she had never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture.
Janet Ekman "Window Treatment with Twenty-One Tails And Red Spikes On 29th Street", New York, 2000 Until one day, Janet went for a walk on the beach and saw the fishermen bundle the net on the beach. This is the scene she will see every day, but this time she realized the new way of sculpture in the fishing net – it can shape the three-dimensional geometry without using heavy and solid materials.
Janet Ekman "Allegory", Eugene, Janet and the local fishermen in 2014 collaborated with the first sculpture that satisfied her - "Wide Hip", which showed a soft surface, wind folds and Changing patterns. After the first fishing net sculpture was completed, Janet was fascinated. She continued to learn the craft tradition and cooperate with the craftsmen in the following time.
Janet Ekman "HerSecretis Patience", Phoenix, 2009
“I was asked if I could show the 35 countries in the Western Hemisphere and their relevance in one work. I don’t know where to start, but I said yes.â€
Janet's image from tsunami data
Janet Ekman "1.26", Denver, 2010
At the American Biennale in Denver, Janet's work "1.26" was inspired by the tsunami data triggered by the Chilean earthquake. The earthquake changed the tectonic plates of the Earth, accelerated the Earth's rotation, and even shortened the length of the Earth's day. Janet contacted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, got the tsunami data, and turned the data into the work "1.26," referring to the 1.26 microseconds in which the Earth's days were shortened.
At the time of creation, Janet found that the appearance of the work derived from the simulated tsunami data was too complicated to rely on the steel ring and the original way. So she chose to replace the metal bracket with a fiber that is 15 times stronger than steel but softer.
Janet Ekman "1.26", Sydney, in 2011, before this improvement in the creation of materials, Janet spent two years looking for a fiber to achieve the permanent and artistic nature of the work. This fiber is resistant to UV rays, salt air, and pollution, while maintaining enough softness to allow the work to swim in the wind.
Janet Ekman, The Space Between Us, Santa Monica, 2013. In addition, she partnered with a fishing net factory to learn the different variables of their machines and find a way to pass the machine. To make lace. Three years later, Janet and his partner finally erected a 50,000-square-foot lace net, making imagination a permanent work, while still maintaining the original artistry during the transformation process.
Janet Ekman, Where We Met, Greensboro, 2016
Charming crossroads
“Today, I use it to create permanent, windy, dynamic, sculpture-sized sculptures that stand in cities around the world.â€
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Jazz Alekman "Possible Futures of aLine, Traveling Through Space and Time", Como, when urban planning expert Sola Morales saw the sculptures in Madrid, asked if Janet could Let the work as a city's composition to achieve permanent retention. Janet is somewhat worried about whether she can preserve the artistry of the work while doing so, because the durability, engineering and permanent qualities are exactly the opposite of uniqueness, exquisiteness and shortness. But in the end, she succeeded in permanently erecting the fishing net sculptures that were extremely artistic, at the crossroads of the city.
Janet Eckman "Dream Catcher", West Hollywood, the crossroads in 2017 was once boring and unremarkable, but now it has become a landscape. Janet said in her speech: "I walked under the sculpture for the first time, watching the dance of the wind slowly stretch, I feel sheltered." From that moment, she sprouted to create these oasis sculptures and let They erect ideas in the gaps between cities around the world.
Janet Ekman "1.8", San Diego, Janet in 2016, when making sculptures for the Philadelphia Historical Memorial, thought that the historic Philadelphia City Hall Square needed a sculpture that was lighter than the fishing net. So she chose to use a small spray of water droplets to create a mist, and the mist created by these tiny atomized water ions can be changed by the wind. Even more surprising is that this mist can be changed and walked through, and people will not get wet.
Janet Ekman's "Target Swooping Austria", in 2017 Janet combines high-tech materials and engineering design to create stunning, architecturally sized works that will be permanent Art adds a touch of interest to the icy city and leaves a thought for the hurrying pedestrian. When we are rejected by good luck, we may look at the familiar things from another angle. Perhaps the inspiration and opportunity are in the next "fishing net".
Artist Janet Echelman
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