Spring in San Francisco means fog, wind, occasional days of sweltering wind, and flowers.
Tiffanie Turner of Corner Blog has an art show up at Rare Device that covers our beloved flora through May 28th. A native of our neighborhood, you may know Tiffanie from her incredible donut pan projects. Her latest endeavor involves large-scale paper flowers, intricately built using soft tissue paper. In her artist statement, she describes her process as such:
To me, the process of creating one of these pieces is similar to that of a person sitting down to work at a loom or to sew a huge quilt together from small pieces of material, except that at some point metastasis occurs and the pieces become out of control. I consider these heads a starting point to hone my technique, and am looking forward to exploring botany on a larger scale, both literally and figuratively.Each flower took between 35 and 80 hours to complete. In an interview with SFGate, she revealed that the 24"–30" flowers are made up of over 1,000 petals hand-cut from Italian floral crepe paper. She begins by installing 3 layers of papier-mache over a blown up balloon, then inverts the shape to be her base.
(Photo: Our Urban Playground)
Interested in seeing this work in person? Head over to Rare Device at 600 Divisadero before May 28th. You can also buy them online here.
Tiffanie is also teaching a class at Workshop SF tomorrow on making paper dahlia headpieces, so "head" on over if you're feeling super inspired.
