Kristin Mariani: Stephen Lapthisophon

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A Slip of the Handling

Photo Credit Day Still

A Slip of the Handling is a table top styling session that animates the thoughts, gestures, and feelings that go into my design process for RedShift.

Revisiting the designed objects, the table top becomes a playground where materials come within reach of hand and eye again, and the things made go through a blurry process of valuation. How might the object’s use and value change post-production?

For me the photo session serves as a bartering act between the photographer/camera and myself. While the camera creates a state of ﬁxation on the object, I rejuvenate my design impulses to transform the materials. In this mediating session, the hand becomes an instrument of thought and prop for the product of labor, and maker becomes partner in the fetishism of the object.

RedShift for db12, Volume 2
Second-hand Skins
Photo Credit Day Still

Mondrian Dress-YSL/SL

I created this dress for Stephen Lapthisophon's exhibit "Spelling Lessons" at Conduit Gallery. It is a play on YSL's day dress from 1965 and a study of Mondrian's grid paintings from 1921. In these early grid paintings Mondrian left many of the black lines open from the edge of the canvas. In my version I left the sides of the dress unfinished and open, but connected by an area of the black grid.

Art Forum review

Front Row Magazine Review

See more photos here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=07-1lI8dlgU

RedShift Mondrian Dress

acrylic on canvas, with black duck tape and found cotton twill ribbon

37" x 22"

Fuller

Ready-made glow in the dark Oxford cloth, thread, pencil pleating, drapery hooks, aluminum rods, plastic sliders. Dimensions variable (appx 8' x 14')

Sustenance: 337 Singleton, Dallas TX , September 2009

An exhibit of site specific installations.

Organized by Stephen Lapthisophon and Anne Lawrence

For this exhibit I made a curtain of glow-in-the-dark fabric on a north facing wall of the Sustenance exhibit site. The primary source of light to this space was an entry door to the west. The random opening of the entry door charged the material over unmeasured intervals of time. The curtain, just by hanging there, supported a metabolic process, absorbing and emitting light, consuming and expelling light. The gathering of the curtain was a drawing process to create a fluctuating fullness containing pockets of space and darkness in each fold.

Here are some images from my research trip to Berlin: photos