organic art

while browsing designboom.com i came across two intriguing installations using plastic straws...i wonder if the artists have seen each other's work?


tokujin yoshioka - rememberance installation, 2006,
(this show featured work from the past 3 years, i wonder if this came out in 2003, the same year as ms. donovan's haze?

The ‘cloud installation of 550,000 transparent straws' was designed for a window display at maison hermes in tokyo. bunches of straws are tightly accumlated together to suggest clouds. the use of weightless materials expresses the idea of ‘formless’ and ‘fluid air’.

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Tara Donovan, Haze, 2003, Stacked Clear Plastic Drinking Straws

uses common, everyday, consumable objects such as scotch tape, drinking straws, plastic cups and paper plates to create incredibly organic sculptures that mimic natural landscapes, clouds, cell structures, fungus... to suggest the biological growth of man-made objects.