ART RECIPES
Ingredients
Directions
Level: Beginner
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Clay or plasticine
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Wire
1 - Think about how you perceive time and what a year looks like to you or interview a friend about it. If the person quickly responds with a clear shape of the year, this person probably experiences synesthesia, then keep asking about the details in how it looks in the minds eye.
2 - Take notes and use the description to make a little abstract sculpture that illustrates the Year Form of this person.
3 - Bend the wire according to the description as if it was a pen drawing the shape in the air and stick it in to a little lump of clay.
4 - Continue to ask another person in order to make a series of Year Forms that all together illustrates the diversity in how we perceive time.
5 - Finally present them at a beautiful pedestal.
"Year Forms"
by Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen.
Year Forms, 2015, Clay, wire
Total Time:
35 min
Prep: 20 min | Cook: 15 min
About the artists
Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen (b. 1977) is an artist, currently living and working in Aarhus, Denmark. She holds an MFA in Visual Art from Malmö Art Academy, Sweden, 2004. Through a range of media, such as video, text, photography, drawing, and object-based installations, Lyngkær Pedersen examines the various ways in which we understand our identity and make sense of our surroundings. Her practice often revisits themes from science and theories of perception.
Lyngkær Pedersen has taken part in several international residency programmes and exhibitions. She has furthermore been engaged in a number of long-term collectives and curatorial projects, including The Production Unit, HOMEWORK and the exhibition space rum46 in Aarhus.
Tools
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Scissor or another tool to cut the wire
