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Submitted: July 31, 2010
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Make:NIKON CORPORATION
Model:NIKON D300S
Shutter Speed:10/2000 second
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Focal Length:24 mm
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Date Taken:Jul 4, 2010, 10:17:07 AM
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Shadow Puppetsby ~fuzzyzebra

Traditional Art / Collage

_{Construction workers are invisible. They are unseen entities, amassed across the city and put to work in anonymous drones, only to leave completed structures as proof of their transient existence.

Under the high-handed instruction of overseers and supervisors, they engage in brutal toil in uncompassionate environments with hard corners and sharp edges. Construction workers are used and controlled by the city as though marionettes, but no audience will take notice. Locals have become so accustomed to the presence of these labourers that they merely appear as street furniture and fade into the shadows. This apathy towards them, despite their indispensability to the city’s expansion, presents an intriguing art element.

Every megastructure is pieced together by hand, brick by brick and bolt by bolt, and it is this that inspires the use of collage. The accessibility of such a direct and literal cut-and-paste method also bears similarity to the seemingly uncomplicated, menial tasks of these blue-collar workers. Vinyl as a synthetic material also makes an apt reference to construction being a process dealing with fabrication and manufacture.

To escape the chaos of urban life, it is easy to slip into living with passive eyes that disregard the individuals around us - but we shall open them once again and hopefully embrace their presence through art.}

Shadow Puppets
Vinyl sticker collage on woodboard
1.4x1.8m

12 colours of vinyl sticker-sheets used, cut into tiny little bits and manipulated into the final image. You can see the edges of the individual sticker pieces if you look hard enough at the detail shots. A super tiring process, but really satisfying results!

a previous work using similar medium and process:

and the accompanying WIP, which shows how the vinyl collage is built up:

Critique by ~DreamOfWaking Aug 8, 2010, 10:17:52 AM

This is incredible. Absolutely incredible. I can't even imagine the patience it took in creating this piece. The detail is absolutely exquisite. Originally I thought it was a photograph that you had edited and enhanced the colours of.

I love that you chose to focus on construction workers, and not just them, but the hard work they do. The responsibility they have. And I love how your work on this piece echoes the work of the construction workers, "pieced together by hand, brick by brick and bolt by bolt." It is truly a love letter, an ode to construction workers.

I am in complete awe of you talent, technique and overall skill.

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~chuwagi Oct 31, 2011

INSPIRATIONAL .

~rationalgaze8A Dec 23, 2010 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

I cant even express how much I love this!!

Amazing job I love the color scheme its just all around amazing excellent work

~fuzzyzebra Dec 23, 2010

thank u lots!

~AraujaPhoto Nov 23, 2010 Hobbyist Photographer

Cool job

~fuzzyzebra Nov 26, 2010

ty!

~green-gun Nov 22, 2010

beautiful. i wish i had something better to say but lack of words

~fuzzyzebra Nov 26, 2010

haha np, thanks lots!

~kismet3135 Nov 22, 2010 Student Photographer

thisis amazing.

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~Maraqua Nov 21, 2010 Hobbyist General Artist

Wow! I love the intensity of the colors that you used. Beautiful!

You seem like a construction worker yourself, painting this with such time! LOVE IT!

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