K Staelin | work | room installation
Door, 2007
Yarn, bead, marabou, nylon line
94 x 8 in.
Detail of a sculptural drawing of a doorway and one's instinctual awareness of the opening edge handle.
Chair, 2007
Tape, gouache, wire, bead, yarn, nylon line, marabou, plumb bob, graphite, pastel, charcoal, paper
78 x 44 1/2 x 29 in.
Chair shows a chair that one is aware of but not looking at directly. It's the red thing over there and the closest corner is about "here."
Detail of Chair, 2007
Another view of Chair. At certain angles the yarn, beads, and drawn shadow visually coalesce and register as a "real" chair.
Room Eyelevel, 2007
Gel, bead, wire, gouache, yarn, paper
5 x 5 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.
Sketch of one's eyelevel.
Room <--> Pocket, III, 2007
Gouache, paper
5 x 5 x 5 in.
Condensed understanding of a space for filing away.
Uninteresting Wall, 2007
Gouache, conte, graphite, bead, marabou, nylon line, paper
78 x 88 in.
Even though we may not focus on the most of the walls we encounter in a day, we register certain aspects such as height. This drawing explores this process of selectively registering information.
Detail of Uninteresting Wall, 2007
Corners noted with beads and lines.
Room|Branch, 2007
Graphite, gouache, conte, charcoal, watercolor, yarn, marabou, bead, paper
Paper: 28 x 33 1/8 in.
Preparatory drawing for the installation "Room." This drawing plays with levels of attention. Dark red circles give way to more refined representations of the chairs, just as ones sense of a chair changes as it falls in and out of peripheral vision.
Detail of Room|Branch, 2007
Window frame and tree rendered as I understand them to be and see them to be.
Diagram of Room, 2007
Room consists of 7 works that play with levels of attention.