Sculpture

Happy Sleepy February Rain embroidered art toy

Happy Sleepy February Rain hand embroidered textile sculpture

Happy Sleepy February Rain, wool and cashmere coating, cotton embroidery by hand, fusible interfacing, polyester stuffing, 2020 Happy Sleepy February Rain – the name of this little soft sculpture and the blue embroidery dashes on a grey cashmere background tell a story of the end of winter 2020 by the Detroit River. February accommodates well hunkering down to do some hand embroidery, both to pass the winter and to rescue the mind with creativity and … >> read more

This is the sunbats having a snooze cropping.

New batch of Happy Sleepy Array art toys

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1458184506431{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1458184529550{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1458184570366{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1458182648737{margin-top: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Happy Sleepy Array had been made before and recently I used up all the rest of the fabric and made a set of sextuplets to join the original. See how the eyes are not lined up? That’s because each one is hand embroidered after the piece is completely finished in each way. The eyes come last. Sometimes, as in … >> read more

A little Onagawa girl holds a puppet she made in Marc's workshop.

Onagawa children assemble Yuuki Flower textile sculpture, Japan

Children living at the temporary housing complex in Okinawa, Japan, assemble the Yuuki Flower sculpture from its components for display in the community market and exhibition space. Daisuke Takeya (blond hair) and Chie Kajiwara (white t-shirt), the curators of the Field Trip Project, assist. It feels fantastic to see so much enthusiasm and interaction with our sculpture. It’s exactly the kind of experience that the art was designed to hopefully generate.

Purple and yellow paper sculpture called Geom Fish.

The Reef Animated Gifs

Animated gifs of painted paper “fauna” elements against a textile sculpture background from the Reef project that was installed at upART 2011. There are a couple of Happy Sleepies in there, too.

Loading... Animated gif of a portion of the Reef textile art and painted paper sculptures installation by Happy Sleepy, aka Marc Ngui and Magda Wojtyra.

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Blug and black geometric paper sculpture by Happy Sleepy aka Magda Wojtyra and Marc Ngui

Geom 1 paper sculpture

Geom 1 painted paper sculpture by Marc Ngui. This one is about the size of a football. This Geom was made to be part of a larger installation of textile art and paper sculptures called The Reef, on display 27 to 30 October 2011 at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto for the annual upART Contemporary Art Fair.

Sculptures for “The Genomic Basis of Parallel Evolution in Three-spined Sticklebacks”

Threespine stickleback pretending to be barracuda.

These guys were commisioned by fellow Flickerite Frenquency to commemorate the end of his PhD studies of this fish species. He studied the evolutionary loss of pelvic spines and was able to switch the relevant genes back on, producing fish with one or both perlvic spines. The thesis title was “The Genomic Basis of Parallel Evolution in Three-spined Sticklebacks”.

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