(Hemlock wood, Oil + Plexi-Glass, 79cm x 30.5cm x 30cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)
Top View-you can also see the Plexi-Glass base and the reflection it gives.
‘Above the Mundane’-‘Something for the Soul’ (View from the top)
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Above the Mundane (Hemlock wood, Oil + Plexi-Glass, 79cm x 30.5cm x 30cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)
This object is made from an old weathered hemlock log, the end of which I painted red. After a few years I cut 3 inches off the end of this very old log and then cut out 13 ‘year rings’ then reassembled it, pushing each ring out a little more than the last. Then I made the ‘Plexi-Glass’ base so the object receives it’s deserved ‘elevated’ status.
-How I made this object might be interesting but what I think is important is the reasoning behind it, the idea, the concept and what it projects(this applies to all of my work, needless to say).
La Gloriosa or “Glorious,Decaying Empire” (Douglas Fir, wood glue, wood oil, 227.5cm x 28cm x 18cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)
(full frontal view)
*This was a big slice of Douglas Fir which first I turned into a perfect rectangular “block”. The newly created “block” had the “Golden Rectangle” shape or the ‘divine proportions/dimensions’. Then I wildly started to cut the block apart , saving all the pieces and splinters and then began to glue them back together again keeping the “golden section” in mind.
It began to look like the “Empire State Building”, The “Statue of Liberty” and “Decaying Detroit” all in one and that’s how I kept it.
In a way it was an experiment to see: “if I cut up “perfection” and then reassemble it(in this case stacking it), will the result still be perfect, i.e.: interesting and “pleasing”?
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La Gloriosa (Douglas Fir,wood glue, 227.5cm x 28cm x 18cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)
This was a block of Douglas fir that i cut up. The block had the “Golden Rectangle” dimension.
This pic shows the semi-side view and was photographed on my work patio.
Very Deep (–photographed on patio with sunlight–Oak,plywood,enamel+resin,42.7cm x 68.7cm x 19.7cm,Dirk Marwig 2013)
The rectangle is a “Golden Rectangle”,i.e.:it has ‘perfect dimensions’
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Vertigo (Oil on wood panel and recycled Fir-wood built into a frame, 52.5cm x 60,2cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)
This painting features the “Golden Rectangle”. It’s the one that has the ‘red outline’ in the centre. The idea for this painting/object came to me after visiting some people who had paintings up on the wall which were sort of hung ‘crooked’, but not on purpose. I wanted to make something that was “off” but at the same time “not off”.
Golden Section
(Oil on recycled paper mounted on plywood with coloured string, 44.5cm x 72cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)