L I S A D A W N G O L D
DRAWING MACHINE “XLVII”
“Blue Chip American Artist”
Solid cast pastel in basswood box
28.5” x 28.5” x 6”
Lisa Dawn Gold © 1993
I had been making cast solid graphite piece for a while and realized I needn't be limited to just graphite or pencil. Certain ideas for works seemed to command other materials. When I conceived of this work, visualizing the idea of a Blue Chip artist, it seemed essential that the work be blue. I ventured into a warehouse in New Jersey where thousands of palettes of 50lb bags of pigment were being moved around by fork lifts, I got my 50lb bag of ultramarine blue and left, without breathing the dust!
I guess I could have used the same binder-medium formula as the graphite works, but instead I chose to learn how pastels were made and made this sculpture as a solid cast pastel. It seemed fitting to me that the sculpture of a Blue Chip Artist would be both fragile in nature and solid at once.
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