Crayons
During Christmas 2005, Christian Faur's daughter opened a box of 120 Crayola crayons. Nice gift for a young girl. But the biggest impact was on Christian. The Ohio-based artist had been experimenting with painting using wax, but he didn't feel the results were satisfactory. Then he saw the crayons. Christian’s revelation was to use the crayons not as a medium but in the work itself. Soon after, he started assembling thousands of individual crayons to produce single, pixelated artworks. Then he would pack the finished pieces into wooden frames. Galleries and collectors loved his unique approach. Later, Christian created a 'crayon alphabet', assigning a letter to a different colour, which let him to hide messages in his paintings.
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Pinterest Pygmalion
86 x 86cm, (9 panels) 13,158 hand cast encaustic crayons
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He says he is inspired by nature: "There are hidden layers of complexity present in even the simplest objects...in my work, I try to mimic these elegant structures by developing systems with which to express my thoughts and ideas, so that the medium and the message appear as one. I think of them as complex visual “poems,” which can redefine the way we think about the meaning of communication.”
Christian Faur
B. 1968
New York, New York, USA
Works in
Granville, Ohio, USA