Granville, Tennessee artist Christian Faur creates this unique artworks made of colorful wax crayons that look like pixelated photographs.
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"My earliest memories of making art involve the use of wax crayons. I can still remember the pleasure of opening a new box of crayons: the distinct smell of the wax, the beautifully colored tips, everything still perfect and unused. Using the first crayon from a new box always gave me a slight pain. Through a novel technique that I have developed, I again find myself working with the familiar form of the crayon."
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"Because of the three-dimensional nature of the crayons, the individual surface images appear to change form as one moves about the gallery space. The images completely disappear when viewed from close up, allowing one to read the horizontally sequenced crayon text and to take in the beautifully colored crayon tips -- all the while being reminded of that first box of crayons."
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"I love the idea of communicating in a way that’s not through language, but through materials. And I have a lot of fun using materials in ways that either subvert or enhance their communicative powers. I love playing. I feel like a kid."
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He starts each work by scanning a photo into a computer and breaking the image down into coloured blocks
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Then he starts placing different color crayons into a grid. The finished artworks are packed tightly into wooden frames
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Each work in his 'Forgotten Children' series spells out the names of children, picked out in bright colours woven into blurred, monochrome pictures of anonymous children
"One of the faces used in the series is a self portrait of myself as a child, rendered in the same style and with the same set of random common names, to appear similar in every to the other portraits, one portrait among the many."
Christian doesn't buy the crayons. He actually makes the them himself, hand-casting each one in a mould
Check his website: www.christianfaur.com/
Source: telegraph.co.uk
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[link]"My earliest memories of making art involve the use of wax crayons. I can still remember the pleasure of opening a new box of crayons: the distinct smell of the wax, the beautifully colored tips, everything still perfect and unused. Using the first crayon from a new box always gave me a slight pain. Through a novel technique that I have developed, I again find myself working with the familiar form of the crayon."
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[link]"Because of the three-dimensional nature of the crayons, the individual surface images appear to change form as one moves about the gallery space. The images completely disappear when viewed from close up, allowing one to read the horizontally sequenced crayon text and to take in the beautifully colored crayon tips -- all the while being reminded of that first box of crayons."
[link]"I love the idea of communicating in a way that’s not through language, but through materials. And I have a lot of fun using materials in ways that either subvert or enhance their communicative powers. I love playing. I feel like a kid."
[link]He starts each work by scanning a photo into a computer and breaking the image down into coloured blocks
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[link]Then he starts placing different color crayons into a grid. The finished artworks are packed tightly into wooden frames
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[link]Each work in his 'Forgotten Children' series spells out the names of children, picked out in bright colours woven into blurred, monochrome pictures of anonymous children
"One of the faces used in the series is a self portrait of myself as a child, rendered in the same style and with the same set of random common names, to appear similar in every to the other portraits, one portrait among the many."
Christian doesn't buy the crayons. He actually makes the them himself, hand-casting each one in a mould
Check his website: www.christianfaur.com/
Source: telegraph.co.uk
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