Staple Approach 2009
A stapler and sheets of paper flutter and vibrate as they approach the moment of their intended unification.
Description
A stapler and sheets of paper flutter and vibrate as they approach the moment of their intended unification. Never quite making it though, the time before that moment is instead emphasized: slowing it down, reversing it, and drawing it out into an infinitely long state of anticipation.
Drew Pavelchak is an artist primarily interested in using stop-motion animation and kinetic sculpture to personify found objects. He received his BFA in 2003 from Carnegie Mellon University, with a concentration in Electronic and Time-Based work. He has exhibited in Pittsburgh’s SPACE and Future Tenant galleries, the Best of Pittsburgh show in the 2007 Three Rivers Arts Festival and the 2008 Pittsburgh Biennial. His animations have also been a part of two traveling shows that toured across the country: Slow-Dance Recyttal in 2004 and CARTUNE XPREZ in 2006. In 2007 he received a Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.