I went to the Met tonight and looked at the collection of Calder jewelry- it is pretty incredible stuff, i mean the guy just never stopped making things- every thing he picked up off the ground was material, with potential...and the works are absolutely beautiful. Most of it is crafted out of scraps and shards of...stuff.
like this one made out of pieces of pottery....i think he called it something about "Crockery"...good word, i think!
Most of the metalwork was done by hammering down wire into flat, warping lines that kinda flow around the figure- and seem to move around a lot too
anyways, there's something about the low-tech, hand-madedness about this stuff that i cant seem to get off my mind- as i was looking at it it kinda felt like i was watching him make it- you can kind of see the craft unfold on itself. The other amazing thing is that feels like the pieces sort of grew out of him organically- they don't really look planned out, but sort of like he let the wire go where go where it needed to go. i think there's something about that harmony in his work in general- it all has to balance, like nature.
So, it also made me think a little about how one interacts with his work- it's a different type of interaction and a different type of multimedia than we are used to today, but it's sort of like the tree falling in the woods thing- if a kinetic Calder piece doesn't get touched, it doesn't really exist. Have you all seen his circus?
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