Vancouver conceptual artist C3 is interested in the microscopic universes all around. Take a long, hard look at her intricate sculptures and you’re likely to gain a deeper understanding of fractals, insect anatomy, plant cells, and crystals. At Lab Art Show, C3 will invite art lovers to experience the beauty of things unseen via an installation in which she’ll affix tiny paper sculptures – created using issues of Westender – onto a human model.
Tell me about your work.
I’m a Vancouver based artist. I studied fine arts in the 1990s, and I went into interior design after. The last three years, I’ve tapped back into my art, and got full-on back into my sculptures, and with my studies in fine arts and interior design, I’ve fused them together, and I mainly just do sculptures.
What inspires you?
The majority of my shapes, I call them fractals. They’re mainly instigated by nature. I really want to have the audience get back into observing all the little things that make our world beautiful. I’ve always been into layers, and layering everything, and lighting it all up. When you layer it, and you light it, you actually see all of the depths of everything from the inside. That’s how I got into the traditional Japanese paper-folding technique, because their concept is always about layering.
So what are you doing for this week’s Lab Art Show?
I’m working with the newspaper. It’s going to be all layers, on a model, which is very exciting. I’m doing all of the intricate paper folds here in my studio, and at the show, I’ll be doing the majority of the construction. I’ll be showing everyone the process.
What do you say to people who haven’t been to a Lab Art Show before?
Come with an open mind. This art show isn’t all about painting. You’ll see musicians, fashion shows, facial painting, DJs. It’s all aspects of art and design, and all aspects of your senses being blown away.
