<span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><span>"I’m trying to communicate <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">transparency.</span></span>"</span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">“</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">The reward for good work</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> is more work.” – Tom Sachs</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: italic;"></span><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7006/6805119475_faf2f377ca_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7006/6805119475_faf2f377ca_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 553px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Intermission Magazine</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> recently posted an interesting interview with <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tom Sachs</span></span>, artist.</span><a href="http://www.intermissionmagazine.com/2011/12/tom-sachs/" style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(read the interview here)</span></span></a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">. His thoughts are reflections on "object" making, both as consumers, viewers, and voyeurs. What do our objects mean? </span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >"</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">I’m trying to communicate transparency.</span></span> I’m looking to show the scars of labor and the evidence of construction. <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">I can’t afford to make things that are perfect </span></span>– if you look at your phone, or your computer, everything that you buy looks as though it was miraculously hatched out of thin air. One way of making things special is to make them by hand. That’s what people look for in your jewelry as well; it’s hands-on, which is part of its charm. I would like to be an advocate for this particular politic of building. Being a builder, I think ideas translate beyond the realms of painting and sculpture. <span style="font-size:100%;">We’re seeing a global recession because we’ve been making terrible shit, terrible cars and so on, and as a result the chickens have come home to roost.</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" > </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">But if we create things showing how they’re made, showing transparency, we’ll know how to fix them if they fail. </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>And maybe they won’t fail because we’ll be able to see the cracks before it happens.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >"<br /></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6805119439_b074b9931c_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6805119439_b074b9931c_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 553px;" /></a><br /><br />"<a href="http://tomsachs.org/"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">TOM SACHS</span></span></a> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">is a sculptor, probably best known for his elaborate recreations of various Modern icons, all of them masterpieces of engineering and design of one kind or another. In an early show he made Knoll office furniture out of phone books and duct tape; later, he recreated Le Corbusier's 1952 Unité d'Habitation using only foamcore and a glue gun.</span><span style="display: block;" id="formatbar_Buttons"><span class=" down" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_CreateLink" title="Link" onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmouseup="" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 8);ButtonMouseDown(this);"><img alt="Link" border="0" class="gl_link" src="img/blank.gif" /></span></span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> Other projects have included his versions of various Cold War masterpieces, like the Apollo 11 Lunar Excursion Module, and the bridge of the battleship USS Enterprise. And because no engineering project is more complex and pervasive than the corporate ecosystem, he's done versions of those, too, including a McDonald's he built using plywood, glue, assorted kitchen appliances. "</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /><a href="http://tomsachs.org/"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Tom Sachs here..</span></a><br /><a href="http://www.intermissionmagazine.com/2011/12/tom-sachs/"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Read the interview here.</span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">---------------</span>

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