173mm DOUBLE GREEN paper, paper cord, acrylic paint, 10" x 43-44" x 9", 2007 $4,800

 

163mm KAMRAR reed, paper, acrylics 37.5” x 15” x 8”, 2006 $4,300

Statement: My works usually begin with some sort of image, which could be very abstract. It might be a line of a grass, sometimes it’s just a color, sometimes it’s something about the quality of a whole landscape. And any inspiration I get, I usually feel has to result in more than one piece. Because a life of constant creativity, you can’t afford to pass up any good ideas. And then I usually go and make a scale drawing of the mold I’m going to build, or of the basket as I want it to be, or both. And sometimes I’ll have an inspiration for a long time without being able to think how to make the shape. So I have a notebook where I keep these things. And then I build the mold. Then I make layer upon layer of paper with these inclusions of reed or cord or whatever, and build it up. Eventually it comes off the mold, and then it needs to be shaped and painted. And I go through periods of using lots of color and then using no color and just concentrating on the form.                                                                                                             Mary Merkel-Hess

166mm KIRON paper, paper cord, acrylics, 13” x 31" x 13", 2005, $2,700

Catalog #2 MARY MERKEL-HESS click for more information	Catalog #15 MARY MERKEL-HESS / LEON NIEHEUS click for more information	Catalog #17 10TH WAVE PART I: New Baskets and Freestanding Sculpture click for more information	Catalog #32 ON PAPER click for more information

Book #28 The Grotta House by Richard Meier click for more information

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