Is That Packing Tape? Why Yes It Is, And It’S Breathtaking.

December 18, 2013

Mark Khaisman takes the ordinary and makes it extraordinary. The art that he creates with simple packing tape is breathtaking. Mark describes the theory behind these amazing images on his website,

“My works are pictorial illusions formed by light and shadow. Tape allows for images that communicate what I’m interested to do in a very direct way. My medium consists of three elements: translucent packing tape, clear acrylic or film panels, and light. By superimposing layers of translucent tape, I play on degrees of opacity that produces transparencies highlighted by the color, shading, and embossment. There are some qualities of tape that make it unique for me as an art material: its banality, humbleness and its “throwaway” nature; its default settings of color and width; its unforgiving translucency; the cold and impersonal attitude that tape surface suggests.”

Below are just a few of his beautiful creations.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/packing-tape-is-breathtaking/#j0c7kDjC453TFbRO.99