Website Reactions

Kendall Buster's website was absolutely fascinating. His projects are complex, immersive, and beautiful. Buster seems to like to take structures, often metal skeletons, and encase them in a membrane to create interesting shapes and patterns. Many of his works are all white. Some have color but all are monochromatic and create a sense of unity. Buster also works on a very large scale and his projects interact with the area they are in as well as the viewer and their vantage point. Although his work does not appear to be particularly functional it is very interactive and beautiful.

Martin Puryear's MoMA site was far less impressive. Puryear works on a much smaller scale, creating sculptural objects with little purpose. Some are extremely complex and woven together or carefully crafted but most are very simple. The thing I found most interesting about Puryear's work was the materials and techniques he uses to create the objects. I have little interest in the final objects or even Puryear's intentions in creating them, but I would be very interested to learn more about his process and his techniques. The only work of Puryears that I responded to was the crooked ladder. I found both its size and its meandering path to be quite intriguing. I felt it stood out because it had less to do with the craft and the materials and more to do with the visual impact.