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#mixed media
#Pip & Pop
#sculpture
#sugar
“I’m fascinated by fictional geographies and paradise mythologies, locations the place we will escape our earthly realities,” says artist Tanya Schultz, also referred to as Pip & Pop, whose large-scale candied cacophonies explode with sugary pastels and scrumptious textures (previously). “These locations could or could not exist, are sometimes discovered by probability, and are inconceivable to find once more as soon as you permit. I believe they are often seen as illusory locations the place we challenge our goals and needs.”
Schultz attracts inspiration from mythological utopias of luxurious and lots, just like the medieval Pays de Cockaigne, also referred to as Luilekkerland or Schlaraffenland. In a spot characterised by idleness and luxury, “the streets are paved with pastries, homes are constructed from desserts, mountains fabricated from pudding, and cheese rains from the sky,” the artist says. She continues:
All through historical past, tales of meals utopias grew to become in style in instances of meals deprivation, particularly throughout medieval instances. Individuals created tales, songs, and maps of those locations as a option to escape actuality and picture a greater future, the place there can be considerable meals. At different instances, these lands of loads had been seen not as escapist fantasies however moderately cautionary tales of gluttony.
Over time, Pip & Pop’s installations have grown in dimension and complexity. Schultz and her studio crew incorporate sugar in varied varieties, “from gentle, fragile piles to laborious, candy-like substances,” the artist tells Colossal. “Nevertheless it all begins with hand-dyeing sugar in lots of of shades of pastel and neon colors.” The big-scale, psychedelic installations additionally make use of modeling clay, rhinestones, beads, papier-mâché, rainbow string, pompoms, and tiny polymer desserts and fruits.
When you’re in Santa Fe, Pip & Pop has a everlasting work on view at Meow Wolf. You can too discover extra on the studio’s website, and keep watch over updates on Instagram.
#installation
#mixed media
#Pip & Pop
#sculpture
#sugar
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