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Soapstone Marking Sticks (RH) and Kodak Slide Compartment File (UW), 2012 RH  Object:  soapstone, paint sample chips, and cardboard UW Object:  metal, wood, gesso, paint, and cardboard

Object Lessons

A project by
Biolunar L
(a.k.a. Robin Hill and Ulla Warchol)

Left to Chance: In Search of the Accidental Book Art,
Curated by Hanna Regev
February 13 - May 12, 2012
San Francisco Center for the Book
375 Rhode Island St, San Francisco, CA 94103

What We Talk About When We Talk About Art by Meredith Tromble

Object Lessons

A project by
Biolunar L
(a.k.a. Robin Hill and Ulla Warchol)

Left to Chance: In Search of the Accidental Book Art,
Curated by Hanna Regev
February 13 - May 12, 2012
San Francisco Center for the Book
375 Rhode Island St, San Francisco, CA 94103

What We Talk About When We Talk About Art by Meredith Tromble

Soapstone Marking Sticks (RH) and Kodak Slide Compartment File (UW), 2012 RH  Object:  soapstone, paint sample chips, and cardboard UW Object:  metal, wood, gesso, paint, and cardboard

Soapstone Marking Sticks (RH) and Kodak Slide Compartment File (UW), 2012 RH  Object:  soapstone, paint sample chips, and cardboard UW Object:  metal, wood, gesso, paint, and cardboard

RH  Object:  soapstone, paint sample chips, and cardboard
UW Object:  metal, wood, gesso, paint, and cardboard

Cast Rubber Cup (RH) and Braile Number Punch (UW), 2012

Cast Rubber Cup (RH) and Braile Number Punch (UW), 2012

RH  Object: cast rubber and plaster
UW Object:  aluminum, waxed paper, and wood

Charred Wood (RH) and Linen Tapes (UW), 2012

Charred Wood (RH) and Linen Tapes (UW), 2012

RH  Object: wood, linen, rubber
UW Object: stamp pad ink, grommet

Copper Test Tube Rack (RH) and Lambertville Flea Market Detritus (UW), 2012

Copper Test Tube Rack (RH) and Lambertville Flea Market Detritus (UW), 2012

RH  Object:  copper, glass, Chartpak Lettering, and cotton
UW Object:  chipboard, waxed linen, and assorted detritus

Dried Meyer Lemon (RH) and Milk Karamel Ad with Titan Black Thread (UW), 2012

Dried Meyer Lemon (RH) and Milk Karamel Ad with Titan Black Thread (UW), 2012

RH  Object: dried lemon, thread, wax, mica, steel
UW Object: paper, linen thread, wood, leather

Plaster Light Bulb (RH) and Kraft Paper Cut-Offs (UW), 2012

Plaster Light Bulb (RH) and Kraft Paper Cut-Offs (UW), 2012

RH  Object: plaster and kraft paper
UW Object: kraft paper, cardboard, glue, and string

Adding Machine Tape (RH) and Montgomery Ward Promotional Measuring Tapes (UW), 2012

Adding Machine Tape (RH) and Montgomery Ward Promotional Measuring Tapes (UW), 2012

RH  Object:  paper, tape, wood, Sumi ink,  and plastic
UW Object:  paper, metal, and thread

Cast Plaster Bucket Bottom (RH) Knotted Sisal Bag (UW), 2012

Cast Plaster Bucket Bottom (RH) Knotted Sisal Bag (UW), 2012

RH  Object: carved plaster, pigment, orange, cotton
UW Object: sisal bag, button, mentos candy

Screen Basket (RH) and Dried Dyed Paper Towel Cut Outs (UW)

Screen Basket (RH) and Dried Dyed Paper Towel Cut Outs (UW)

RH  Object: screen basket, paper, pigment
UW Object: caste dried paper towel

Sea Brick (RH) and Needle Book (UW), 2012

Sea Brick (RH) and Needle Book (UW), 2012

RH  Object:  brick, steel dress pins, wax, paint
UW Object:  buckram, sand paper, thread, cardboard, steel wool, wood, and metal

String Board (RH) and Erasers (UW), 2012

String Board (RH) and Erasers (UW), 2012

RH  Object: wood, string, erasers
UW Object:  earsers, rubber bands, and string

Wax Filled Slide Carousel (RH) and Cotton Swabbers (UH), 2012

Wax Filled Slide Carousel (RH) and Cotton Swabbers (UH), 2012

RH  Object: slide carousel, wax, aluminum wire, styrofoam, cotton
UW Object: cotton swabbers, wire, wood, paper 

Object Lessons, 2012

by Biolunar L  
(a.k.a. Robin Hill and Ulla Warchol)


For Object Lessons, Biolunar L (a.k.a. Robin Hill and Ulla Warchol) enacted a cross-country Skype conversation in which each artist simultaneously held up an object for the other to view. With no discussion allowed beyond physical descriptions of weight, size, texture, smell, taste, color etc. the artists sought to simply see what was being shown. Twelve sets of two objects were meeting for the first time, in real time, in a virtual space, introduced by their artist finder. Once the introductions were complete, and screen shots of the objects’ pairings captured, the artists began a solitary process of transformation of their individual objects. The only guideline was that each artist integrate an aspect, quality, or attribute of the other’s object into her own.

Upon Warchol’s arrival in California the artists structured an unpacking session in Hill’s Woodland studio, in which the transformed objects faced each other for the first time. What emerged was a tender and surprising experience of reciprocity. From Biolunar L ’s point of view, the success of their project has as much to do with the template it provides for jumpstarting one’s creative process, for questioning authorship and shared provenance, for seeing things in a new way for expanding the landscape of one’s work habits (as in when to think and stop making, and when to make and stop thinking), for versatility and adaptability, for allowing chance encounters to prompt future actions, for alleviating the pressure of hermetic models of production, for engaging in improvisation and collaboration, and for connecting parts of the whole, as it does with the actual work they produced.   Biolunar L  , 2012

The Accidental Book Art,  curated by Hanna Regev
San Francisco Center for the Book
February 2012

Art and Shadows by Meredith Tromble
 

 

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