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Artwork based on origami. Key Benefits
Artist Statement
The concept of Rocky Arts began late in 2004 after I received my Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from Endicott College in May 2004; however, as an establishment, the first endeavor, an art fair, occurred on December 3, 2005 and Rocky Arts has since expanded. Currently, Rocky Arts exposes work through art fairs and gallery shows including a permanent exhibit at Town Pizza in Needham, Massachusetts, is affiliated with Artists With Disabilities Task Force (AWDTF), has had teaching opportunities, and will start running origami parties in July 2008.
My array of items for sale all involve origami and range in variety, focusing both on two and three dimensional display characteristics. A summary of three-dimensional work I create includes earrings, necklace charms, crane cards, crane ornaments, festive rock paper weights / garden decorations, fun kits and more.
Two dimensional works mainly involve large charcoal drawings of origami of which its history I will go into great detail about; however, first I will explain other uses, then I will assert the drawing’s uses and finally their history. Diagrams, which are instructions on how to fold various origami models, I have put onto placemats and the plain diagrams I distribute while teaching. Coasters with healing text, an image of the crane, geometrical patterns and more, all in a unique format, are another item I create.
Charcoal drawing uses will now be stated. One use of the charcoal drawings is to fill my entire self-design Rocky Arts calendar. Two, is to make them into post cards and greeting cards. Three is as frame-able artworks. This includes the original drawings, reproduced high-quality prints and something I call “everything origami,” where each includes a small image of its full drawing, poetry about the piece, the corresponding flat origami model (where the finished origami piece is physically flat), and a depiction of myself looking up hopefully at the images in the sky. To further understand why I aim to Fold Progressively, I will explain how my charcoal drawing of origami endeavor took shape, educationally and historically.
“OrigamiBy the sea, ORIn the basement before tea Whenever and wherever inspiration may be”
“By the sea” refers to the sea-side education at Endicott College’s Art and Design School in Beverly, Massachusetts where I started the origami series of 2 by 3 feet drawings with each artwork keeping the name of an origami piece. The earliest four charcoal of origami drawings were created in Endicott’s Art Center. The fifth piece, referred to in the above poem as “OR” was the transition piece from college to professional work. It featured Michael LaFosse’s Horseshoe Crab, drawn at his Origamidō Studio in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Moving to Hawaii by the end of 2008, he is a great inspiration to me. I may have been subconsciously thinking of him and Akira, his role model, when I wrote the poem below on August 17, 2004, as I began a career-supporting living situation with an elderly woman:
“This is it My hope for timeThe crossing of generations My hope for many rhymes”
On that August day the address of “In the basement before tea” was set, where the undertaking proceeded but in the paper size, 18 by 24 inches and with a poem alongside it. Moreover, even with relocation to a place without a basement where tea is not served at dinnertime or doing art in the evening is normal, the general poem still has metaphoric implications.
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