I wasn’t expecting to find such delicate industrial beauty inside the old military station of Fort Mason in San Francisco, but that is exactly what I found when I stumbled across Mirang Wonne’s work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists’ Gallery.
You can see the scale of the work in this photo, where Louise is standing captivated by it.
According to the gallery brochure, Mirang ‘creates drawings on stainless steel mesh by burning the surface with a torch. The silver coloured metal surface… bears some resemblance to Asian calligraphy and brush painting created on long scrolls of paper’.
The colours in the melted mesh were beautiful, like oil on water, and the work drew me in.
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I was in California to take a painting class from the awesome Jesse Reno. You can read about it here, and see what crazy stuff I painted! More on my USA adventures to follow shortly…
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