Seattle based artist Evan Blackwell´s approach seems not entirely different from that of Edmond van der Bijl, who we featured yesterday:

I have consistently been making things with materials from my surroundings as a way to comprehend, as well as bring order and new meanings to the world I live in. (..) My goal is to reinvent much of my surroundings both philosophically and physically in order to experience a more fulfilling life. My methods for doing this is to collect, rearrange and repurpose the materials and spaces around me. Translating everyday things into poignant forms of expression of our time; similar to a kind of alchemy (..).

Not exactly mind-blowing either, but the sheer aesthetic quality and visual surprise of Evan Backwell´s works is striking at times, as in e.g. “Unconscious Melt” (2005) or the several “Hanger Structures” he made in 2006.

For “Outdoor Re-Creation” (2006) Evan, as he replied to my email inquiry, “used 13 chairs from a Goodwill Thrift Store to create a pattern based on a natural structure. From the perspective of and outdoor chair we are symbolically and physically separated from nature. In this piece I am interested in challenging our perception of the divide between the natural and artificial.”

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