Photographs re-created using wax crayons

FROM AFAR these works of art look like simple pixelated pictures but in fact they are photographs recreated with thousands of colourful wax crayons.

Neptune (photography) trine Hades (interest in the past, childhood memories). Ceres (relationships with parents and children) trine Haumea (portraits and or caricatures, creative). Occultation of Venus by the Moon (5 cn 45'6").

Artist Christian Faur revoked memories from his childhood making a Christmas present for his young daughter and began making art out of coloured wax.

He makes the crayons himself, colouring and casting the wax, before stacking them inside boxes following a pixelated image he has generated on a computer.

The Ohio artist said: ‘My earliest memories of making art involve the use of wax crayons.

'I can still remember the pleasure of opening a new box of crayons, the distinct smell of the wax, the beautifully coloured tips, everything still perfect and unused.

'Using the first crayon from a new box always gave me a slight pain. To the best of my knowledge this is unlike anything ever done before in art.

'The individual 'pixels’ of wax are precisely packed into specific locations to produce something that uniquely balances both photography and sculpture.’

Mr Faur has been working with crayons since 2005 when making a Christmas present for his daughter.

He was building a wooden crayon box when the wax crayons inspired him to create his pieces

‘I love the idea of communicating in a way that’s not through language, but through materials,’Faur told American Crafts Magazine.

‘And I have a lot of fun using materials in ways that either subvert or enhance their communicative powers. I love playing. I feel like a kid,’ Faur told American Crafts Magazine last month.

In his latest sequence of art called ‘In A Series of Melodies’, he has taken one image of his now-teenage daughter and created a series of installations in different colours and patterns.

Faur, who works as director of collaborative technologies in the arts at Denison University in Ohio is now looking into the future works with pixels discovering how the brain transform a data point and bring them together into an image.

NOTE: Hades in Taurus arts, crafts: wood carving, pottery making, paper making, stained glass, drum making, stone carving, fleece wool etc.

Source: Daily Mail