(Photos by Kelly Barrie, Panic Studio LA)
Here's the press release from the Los Angeles World Airports site:
Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, announces a new installation by Los Angeles-based artists Sophia Allison and Leanne Lee at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The installation, titled Passage, is composed of coffee filters, which were used, dried, and sewn together, and delicate drawings on rice paper. Using these materials to create, deconstruct, and reconstruct speaks to the notion of process, change, and reinvention. The site-specific installation is on view in the art display case in the Customs Hall of the Tom Bradley International Terminal, on the Lower/Arrivals Level, for ticketed international passengers through March 2013.
Passage
references a ritualistic domestic action: making coffee. Water passes
through ground coffee and filters, staining the ghost image of the
process into the paper. Allison and Lee dried and ironed flat the used
filters, then stitched them into clusters reminiscent of floral and
vegetative landscapes. Adding to the juxtaposition of organic and
inorganic, of ritual and daily activity, the artists incorporated
cityscape drawings on rice paper which were stained with watercolor and
coffee. Informed by
traditional
Korean symbols and motifs, these drawings were reconfigured by cutting,
tearing, and sewing the images into the clusters of coffee filters. As
actual geographies, locations and landscapes shift and fluctuate –
physically, mentally, and metaphorically –the materials that comprise
this work are non-permanent and fragile. As a modular construct, Passage can be repositioned infinitely, becoming site-specific and speaking to the temporal nature of life.
http://stuckattheairport.com/2012/12/21/art-made-of-coffee-filters-at-lax-airport/
