i'm always happy to receive an email from fellow art slug danny scheible because he's usually up to no good. this time, i received some photos of something truly spectacular which you'll see at the bottom of this post.
back at our alma mater, dan took over masking tape as an art material and has since been using the stuff to create sticky 3D cities that wind up covering walls, floors, and shoulders of pedestrians passing through crosswalks.
one smoggy afternoon, we strolled from red lobster on wilshire boulevard to the la county museum of art. in that time (about 6 minutes), he effortlessly created a 15 inch flower for me and gave away several small tape cities to curious on-lookers.
upon meeting this guy, you'll quickly notice that his dedication to art-making is unsurpassed. wherever he goes, along comes a self-made tape-dispensing backpack that allows him to construct new pieces on the go, continually adding to his behemoth collection of tape architecture (often stored in large containers that fill up his mini-van).
without looking down at his hands, dan rolls the tape into long skinny tubes, folds, and wraps each one into a layered cone, steeple, square, rectangle, or other 3d polygon. the result of his repetitive technique can be mind-numbing.
however, dan's latest work strays from masking tape just a bit. THE LEVIATHAN pictured below is made up of over 1700 hangers wrapped in fabrics of all colors and textures. what a sight.
can't wait for his MoMA retrospective in 20 years.