B Shawn Cox creates in the warm, soft light of pop philosophy creating analog transformations social and personal mythologies from nostalgic materials. His role as an is artist inspired by...
B Shawn Cox creates in the warm, soft light of pop philosophy creating analog transformations social and personal mythologies from nostalgic materials. His role as an is artist inspired by two responsibilities – first to capture, emote and communicate an idea and then, to transform the chosen medium itself as part of the expression. The impetus of his current body of work is outdated paper-based information linked with stereotypes perpetuated by current social mythologies.
The work is built from geometric interlocking of modular origami sonobe made from text or printed paper. Each module captures, distills and holds a fragment of an image, visual tool, text or narrative into a uniform module linked its respective social myth. The relationship between the modules forms the basis of a new tangible and dimensional language by both referencing the old medium as a construct to layer narratives and metaphors built from these tangible visual abstractions of an idea.