The legend of the Trojan Horse is known by all… a gift of peace turned violent. In that spirit, I am embarking on a monumental project that I need your help with: The Trojan Crane.
I am going to build a large-scale (10+feet) sculpture. It is going to be like the Trojan Horse… but an origami crane.
I appreciate any and all support in order to make this idea a reality. The world needs the Trojan Crane. Thanks for all who have already pledged their support!
Here is a peek at some preliminary ideas for a secret new project. Hope I haven’t given too much away!
-sara cannon
heres a little painting I made using encaustic painting and collage. “waiting for difference”
Here is a digital collage I created. I hope you like it.
- sara cannon
Your Data Must Be Analyzed is a new ongoing project of mine in the works that will hopefully see fruition soon. Here is a screen-print poster I made experimenting with the title of the project.
“Your Data Must Be Analyzed” is a Mail Art Series that I am sending out to my Alternative Practices class. It is an initial off-line survey that I am starting for another project. I’ve been calling this the “analog” version. (although there isn’t much analog about it) However, I am experimenting in the response Off-line v.s. Online. More to come on this project and the responses later. We shall see.
- Sara Cannon
Sara Cannon Mail Art "Your Data Must Be Analyzed"
In my alternative practices class last night we learned book binding techniques. I was able to make a small book out of French Paper (kraft) and a cover from vintage contact paper I found at the thrift store. The first is a Japanese Stab Binding and the second book is a dos-à-dos binding. The dos-a-dos is made from French Paper (a light blue duratone), filler paper, and a Kroger print out sheet form a processer. I am looking forward to making more books!
~sara
Here are my two Zine page contribution for the opening of The Birmingham Art Collective’s Window Installation “Statement of a Facade” at Space One Eleven. Come Friday night. Opening Reception 6-8.
In conjunction with Margot Wade’s gallery opening “Pubic Places Private Spaces”. (and no, that’s not a typo)
Please be there. I am so excited about this opening. Come support great art in Birmingham!
love,
- Sara Cannon
everyone grows up.
everyone has memory.
everyone wears clothes.
- this interactive installation explores the fabric and communities combined with nostalgia, forward movement, associations, and memory.-
The fabric swatches pinned delicately to the wall are all cut out and taken from different clothes that I have worn throughout my life. Every piece of material invokes a specific memory, a feeling, or a time period. All of them are threaded to the center piece. The center piece resembles a wind chime, kite, and loom. Hanging in the center, there is a piece of a quilt which has sewn some of the fabric pieces together to create a unified piece, but still unfinished. When the center piece sways or is pushed, all the fabric pieces move and sway like a school of fish.. all bound to an unknown rhythm. The interaction is playful but elegant and quiet, looking back and looking forward.
– Sara Cannon
Fabric of Time by Sara Cannon from sara cannon on Vimeo. music by the triceratops
At Birmingham Artwalk 2009, The Birmingham Art Collective occupied David Carrigan’s old Jimmy Hale “Mission Building”. Because of the raw interior, I decided to install the sculpture that I had been thinking about for a while but never had a place to make it happen. Other artists that displayed in the building that night were: Moriah Ozbourn, Joanna Lynn H, and Jason Burgess.
For “Icecream Funeral” I built two reverse boats. Their sails were made of wood, and their hulls were made of sails. They floated along semi-disattached among strung along icecream cones. These cones were all around them like rain. and the boats were in a funeral procession.
At 8:00pm I climbed up a ladder and put neopolitan icecream in the cones.. and for the rest of the night they dripped a sweet rain all over the boats and ground. Slowly some of the cones fell off and others just melted. You could smell the sweet icecream and hear the drips and splatters of the sculpture melting away.
Sara Cannon
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Sara Cannon is an artist, graphic designer, and WordPress Developer living in Birmingham Alabama. This is her website that merges her loves: art.design.web. Check here for Art, inspiration, WordPress Development tips, as well as her own work. <3
