![]() Kara Walker at Domino – May 10 through July 6 from Creative Time on Vimeo.This video demonstrates a completely approachable and affordable method of printmaking that American Artist magazine has described as " Elegant Prints From a Foam Plate. What can EPS foam do for your next project? The uses of this simple product are simply endless. Upon completion of the exhibition, Art Domantay, Project Consultant and Director of Fabrication, was mindful of the environmental impact of disposing of the EPS foam and carefully “deglazed” the blocks in order for ICA, Insulation Company of America, to recycle the material.ĮPS – the Extraordinary Product Solution – from artwork to roadways to insulation. Walker’s creation and then covered in a sugary glaze. That is a total of over 330 blocks that were stacked, glued, and sculpted into Ms. Forty blocks of EPS foam were transported to the site every third day for six weeks. A collaborative team was formed for the NY installation that could take the fine milled and rough milled foam and complete any additional modeling on site. ![]() ![]() The engineers at Digital Atelier then segmented the 3D model into 330 sections as if these were large blocks that could be stacked and built like the original sphinx. This model was refined by Kara Walker at her studio and then scanned again to enlarge to the 75-foot version. Digital Atelier was able to laser scan a 12-inch model made by the artist and mill an 8-foot version in foam. Digital Atelier was challenged by Kara Walker and Creative Time, the sponsors of the project, to come up with a way to produce this monumental sculpture that not only satisfied the artist’s aesthetics but also complied with a very strict time frame. What was the medium of choice for this epic piece of art? EPS foam (Expanded Polystyrene) blocks were supplied by Digital Atelierin Mercerville, NJ and manufactured by Insulation Company of America located in Allentown, PA. Walker’s sphinx-like monument she calls:Īn Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant There is much thought, inspiration and research to Ms. Walker was taken not only with those stories but with the history of the slave trade in America: Who cut the sugar cane? Who ground it down to syrup? Who bleached it? Who sacked it?” This tradition made its way to Northern Europe, eventually, where royal chefs made sugar sculptures called subtleties. Walker, in a very informative interview with Kara Rooney, says that she read a book called “Sweetness and Power: the Place of Sugar in Modern History.” There, she learned that sugar was such a commodity that, in the 11 th century, marzipan sculptures were created by the sultans in the East to give to the poor on feast days. Remember, sugar is brown in its “raw” state. A mammy-as-sphinx made out of bleached sugar, which is a metaphor and reality. “Measuring approximately seventy-five and a half feet long and thirty-five and a half feet high, the sculpture is white. The irony of this sculpture was captured by an article in The New Yorker. The only thing that remains of this ironic, contradicting, epic sphinx is her left hand, which is configured in a way that perhaps suggests her send off to society.
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