Sayaka Ganz

Deep Sea 2007 32” x 42” x 28”  mostly blue and green plastic objects

I finally found online the artist that I feel represents well this second project. She uses everyday objects and forms them into animals. I like her use of animals in movement because I feel it displays their strength or raw energy. The artist is Sayaka Ganz. She is from Japan but lives in the U.S. She is best known for her use of anything relatable to plastic such as utensils, combs, baskets, etc and forming these animals mostly in implied motion. She collects many of her works from trash, second hand stores, friends and family and sorts them by color. Many of her works have the same hues, but there are other works that have similar colors, but different shades.

One example of her works Deep Sea applies to this variation of shades. Ganz applies blue and green utensils to form a big mouth fish. I like the texture of the basket she adds to the lower mouth and fin. 

She then makes a wire frame as the base and ties the plastic into the wire structure carefully joining the plastic to create a skeletal form. Some of her larger sculptures contain 500 pieces of plastic. I like how she places the utensils or other plastic to represent an ear such as a shovel or plastic ladles for legs. 

She also gives it a stop motion of the animal running or crouching the way she position the plastic to emphasize movement such as the running red orange cat Fogo. She adds horizontal lines of wire or plastic to create the air or wind passing. It appears to give the viewer the full speed of the cat.

Fogo, 2008  32” x 110” x 26”  Reclaimed materials (mostly red and orange plastic 

The same is for another installation of horses running. They are somewhat large Night and Wind being five to six feet in height. I liked how she placed the two horses bursting from the wall at their full speed hence the name of the installation Emergence. The black horse also called Night is almost similar of a high relief, it emerges halfway from the wall only showing the frontal portion of the horse. The white horse Wind entirely emerges from the wall. She depicts a stop motion of the two horses racing and like the cat installion surrounds wire to the installations to convey an air stream. The plastic gives it a curvilinear form. Her assemblages of these plastic forms make beautiful installations  

Emergence, 2008 Two pieces installation: Night  mostly black and clear plasticobjects, 72” x 50” x 17”Wind mostly white and clear plastic objects, 63” x 78” x 26”