Tape

tape deck

Chris Hosmer — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:23:31 +0000

KMM working

Chris Hosmer — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:40:22 +0000

It's been so long and the box of tape has been sitting around just pouting so I finally forced myself to start sketching. Katherine was working so I drew her "computer" face. This one had to get taken down before I finished it so it's in the sketch phase and it was done in 20 minutes or so.

raven

Chris Hosmer — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:55:13 +0000

(32"×32") The raven is for a book that's coming out next year called The ARK Project.

Minga in-progress

Chris Hosmer — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:36:44 +0000

Minga deserves her own portrait in tape.

seed

Chris Hosmer — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:41:20 +0000

(24"×13") This one's been sitting around my apartment collecting dust, like real flowers in my apartment do, so I finally took some shots of it. Don't know where I got this piece of wood but it seemed like a good canvas for tape.

Hashidate Maru

Chris Hosmer — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:46:01 +0000

(12'×9') This is the largest tape mural I've done and it's on the wall at 55 Norfolk. After WWII my Grandfather spent two years on a whaling ship in the Antarctic called the Hashidate Maru. He used to tell me stories about how smart the whales were, how they were so strong they'd burn out the engines of the boats by pulling them for miles. I think this piece is my imagining of that struggle but from the whale's perspective. It feels both violent and serene to me.

Ben

Chris Hosmer — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:18:31 +0000

Kenbo

Chris Hosmer — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:03:26 +0000

John

Chris Hosmer — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:10:00 +0000

Packy

Chris Hosmer — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 07:05:00 +0000

(23"x31") Black and yellow masking tape and paper tape on corrugated cardboard of the average variety. This one is much smaller than the ones on the wall and feels more like how I actually draw. This is one of many tape portraits I am doing to be installed at 55 Norfolk Gallery in Cambridge, MA.