Eric Daigh’s Thumbtacks
Apr 16th,
2010
Eric Daugh uses thumbtacks to make large portraits of people. Sort of along the lines of
Christian Faur’s crayon art we posted a while back, Daugh uses a 3D round object, thumbtacks, to create a pointillist piece of art. These large pieces look realistic from far away but are very abstract up close.
It’s obvious whoever wrote his description/bio owns a thesaurus:
Using push pins, the innocuous, adhesive, near-detritus of our everyday Eric creates the view from here. His work is that rare arial perspective of the faces we see everyday, the vistas of common personalities, the longview of the human. You can stand up close, squint into the vacu-formed industrial sheen of some common object but such a perspective only argues the atomic structure of his work. As we pull back one quotidian reference morphs into another, objects become portraits, the pedestrian becomes sublime. Molecules, pixels, cultivated fields all speak to his medium. He starts with a flat 5 color cadence, all just rhythmic loops, then relationships form, a singularity shifts into subtle congress and depth and tones appear. We step back further and slowly, as if through the portal of some remote ship we suddenly recognize. That’s us. That’s me. His grids are pictoral DNA, a seemingly simple sequence that when sounded in its complexity reveals the honesty of the unreapeatable person.
I wish artists’ bios simply spoke human. Anyways, the work is awesome, and I want some of it on my wall, and that’s all that really matters.
See more of his work at his site, including a mega-cool high-resolution-zooming-thingy which lets you zoom in and out to view the piece, or the tacks: www.daigh.com.
Posted by: Ricky | Tags: art, color, fine art, illustration
Hey Eric Daigh— cool story bro.
“I am free from credit card debt.”
And what the hell is that supposed to mean?
These are awesome! Sort of reminds me of Chuck Close’s work.
awesome…his work is so good that he should be able to afford to hire a writer…i think he threw in the big words to cover up the fact that even with them, that paragraph makes NO SENSE. the grammar is so poor…remember kids, “you can’t polish a turd!” even with big shiny words.
Would love to see the process. Does he spontaneously make ‘em or does he have help (e.g. photoshop used to break a photo into its primary color pixels, create a grid and simply recreate with thumbtacks)?
They’re cool — would be even more impressed if these were original pieces of art instead of recreations of photography.
He’s got the Guinness Book World Record for largest pushpin mosaic — so he’s got that goin’ for him.