Mira Schendel

Mira Schendel was a Brazilian artist who through her later years was mostly considered a modernist painter and sculpture. I went to her exhibition at the Tate Modern in London. I found the most recent work the most interesting, especially in the materials that she uses. I didn't realise until later how much of an influence she had on my drawing project.

One of my favourite works by Schendel is 'Variants' 1977. It's an instillation with rice paper suspended in the air with thread. All of the materials she uses are delicate and fragile, and the use and delicate and translucent materials such as rice paper giver her a work a fragile and ethereal feel, as if they stand on the very edge of existence.

The final outcome of my final piece for my drawing project is fine liner drawings on tracing paper, suspended on a beam. It's similar to Schendels work in that we've both used fairly delicate materials and have suspended them in the air. Although I wasn't inspired by her themes, I think I found her presentation fascinating and a nice, more interactive way of displaying some types of work.