taxcha | {003} Ebon Heath's Typographic Sculpture

Ebon Heath is an artist who lives and works between Brooklyn, Bali, and Berlin. His works are AMAZING. STUNNING. It's crazy. I love typography, and I love art, I never knew a way to incorporate the two into a whole different level of art; visual poetry. AMAZING.

This is a direct quote from one of his interview explaining his art :

Generally, I work with papers and plastics in my sculptures. For my jewelry, I use metals, plastics and leather. I originally was hand cutting my letters but now I use lasers which give me more freedom to work with different kinds of materials.

The majority of time working on these sculptures is spent on assembling all the elements. Tying hundreds of knots in nylon fishing string to make letters float invisibly or twirl like tornadoes. Designing these structures tends to be more of a engineering problem then fine art since my factors for a successful piece are balancing weight evenly, structural support and discovering the best use of materials for construction.

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