Another artist who creates artworks with cascading cut-out shapes
is Pae White. I would love to closely examine some of her
installations. She explores movement in her works that remind me of
Calder mobiles on steroids. They are constructed of thousands of
brightly colored orbs of paper strung on colored string. Her
multiple-cut-paper artworks, similarly to Fox’s, seem to define the
three-dimensional space they are installed in.

Pae’s video on You Tube is fascinating to watch. Her site specific
projects, she says, incorporate the architecture of a space.
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWZaTIJec0w)
Her approach to artmaking starts with the space and features it
to pay tribute to it. Surrounded by her 2009 Venice Biennial
installation in its voluminous 13th century Arsenale space on
the video, she explains this approach. Her process she describes
as meditative. Constructing this installation’s imaginary aviary with
bird-seed encrusted chandeliers and brightly colored dropped ceiling
of string must certainly have been meditative.

Both Mark Fox and Pae White experience a meditative process as they
make their artworks. Artists often say their repetitive artmaking
process is meditative. I find my artmaking process is too.