Every year a certain person commissions an artist to create a piece of art as a holiday gift to friends. This year’s edition arrived a couple of days ago.
Looks like an ordinary photo album, no? Now see what it looks like opened:
Do you see what’s going on? It’s wonderful. Here’s what’s on a note that came with the piece.
Peter Coffin was born in Berkeley, California in 1972 and currently resides in New York City. His installations, sculptures, and photographs playfully explore social paradigms and perceptions of reality. Coffin’s work invites the viewer to observe and interact with nebulous principles such as memory, association, and interpretation, sometimes evoking the chimera of new age theory or fringe science. For this year’s project, Coffin presents a seemingly ordinary photo Album, which, when opened, expands into a constellations of found photographs linked by the image of a rainbow that spirals through each scene. In the spirit of iconic works by Robert Smithson, Vladimir Tatlin, Bruce Nauman, and Mario Merz, the spiral is a link to an infinity beyond our reach and serves as a symbol of the creative process.
Here are a couple of more pieces from the years passed:
That is so neat! What an amazing presentation (not to mention amazing photos).
wow, what a great variety of art!! so these are art pieces given to YOU as gifts from said certain person?
Those are beautiful pieces of art. Someone is a lucky recipient to receive such a gift.
Chris asked the right question, “are pieces given to YOU as gifts?”
Thanks Annika! I wonder how the artist went about collecting the right photos to create this piece. I am interested to see more of his work. I did find a couple online that look quite interesting.
Chris & Jerry! Interesting question. When the gifts arrive we always say “our gift has arrived.” Or something like that. The intended recipient is my partner. But since we are legally partnered, what’s his is mine. BWAHAHAHA! Oops, was that an evil laugh?
Chris & Jerry, I might have misunderstood your question.
But I think you got the answer anyway. 