Andrea Keim, Paper Topo Maps

images courtesy of John Merritt

Napkin holder Andrea Keim

ok here are the 5 stages of this wonderful project.. the original, the plasticine mini, partially finished HUMUNGO, finished HUMUNGO and partially destroyed HUMUNGO.. as you can see it is a napkin holder that i found outside of repo.. its rather rusty (mainly inside) because it had been sitting out in the elements since the dining hall has changed over to their new plastic dispensers. i thought it would be fitting to make a napkin holder covered in napkins so i did, the brown napkins that cover the sides and top are from the dining hall (they say saving the environment one napkin at a time which i found ironic because if they really wanted to save the world we would be using napkins that we could wash or no napkins at all) and the napkins that cover the other two faces and the rivets are from foxes pizza den in town. both napkins are more than just something to wipe your mouth on they are advertisements for a company just like the new napkin holders in the dining halls, each side of them has a place for the dining hall to advertise anything they want to.

Andrea Keim, The Bike 2-4 pm Saturday, Trapped

I went to repo to get what I could, and ended up with a massive amount of foam cut outs covered in plaster and sheer fabric. I used both to make a sort of cage for the "bike." One half was of fabric, like a canopy (used the bike wheel rim to support the fabric) and the other was a semi-circle wall of plaster covered foam, which was on black fabric. The large pieces of the bike I made into a creature that was chained to the rest of the smaller bike remnants. I then scattered pine needles on the white half of the square to provide contrast to the white bike parts. Through the use of both the bike chain and the cage like structure the bike was "trapped" in the square which was my intended word.