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Welcome to my new website. I created this more friendly user website and blog so I can communicate more easily and often. I kept the look and feel of my earlier site, but this one allows you to keep up to date with my latest projects, exhibitions, collaborations, news, video animations, and other art projects. Feel free to look around and share the site with people you think might enjoy my work. In the last few months I have been busy with two projects. At the Palo Alto Art Center I created Vertical Garden, an installation made with the help of the local community for the opening show Community Creates. This exhibition celebrates the Palo Alto Art Center’s unique institutional history and their ongoing commitment to the community. Vertical Garden is an engaging sculptural installation featuring plant-like sculptures that appear to be growing directly out of the gallery wall. The sculpted ferns were crafted by community members out of wire, glue, and patterned fabrics sourced from the community. Over the course of the exhibition, this artificial fern garden will continue to grow and expand, showcasing the relationship between humans and the natural and artificial world and the role patterns play in nature and textiles. The exhibition is on view until April 12th. I am also working on the first stages of a new interactive installation project. The Carpet Project is a large scale labyrinth-like sculpture of precisely cut carpet. This will be serve as a walkable path and urban meditation in many public spaces. The Carpet Project will be presented as an installation in fine art, public, and community spaces. Community members will be invited to observe, walk or meditate in the labyrinth and experience art as a surprising and transformative tool. Stay tuned for more details!    Learn more about Vertical Garden here
6 Comments
2/10/2013 09:44:13 pm
Hey Paz, congrats it's a beautiful site. I think the social aspect you mentioned in your email sounds very cool, but I don't quite get a sense of how it works on the site. Love the videos with all of the time lapse photography,very well done. I'm really into artists videos these days and your's are very creative. And you know I love the lyrical line of the hair work. It's like music on the canvas!
Paz de La Calzada
2/11/2013 12:53:29 am
Hi David, Thanks for being the first one in writing a comment. I appreciate your input. What I was trying to say about the blog is that is a more interactive experience for the user. Not just clicking for information but give your direct opinion on a particular blog post.
Kim Bender
2/11/2013 03:04:13 am
Paz, what a beautiful website! So great to see your vision and your work come together. Super clean. Really inviting. Congrats!
Paz de la Calzada
2/11/2013 11:36:39 am
Thanks Kim, It took me a long time to put it together but I am very happy with it. I like the idea of a blog more than a static page. Wishing you the best for this new year of the Snake. 2/13/2013 01:25:20 am
It's wonderful Paz! I love your playful sensibility and how your art transforms the mundane into something to watch and be curious about. I love the sounds of the Carpet Project-it's everyday art with an interactive nature that holds power to wake people from their automaticity! Love it! Love YOU!
Paz de la Calzada
2/13/2013 04:06:25 pm
Thank you Melissa for your beautiful words. I think that the Carpet Project will definitely be where art and ritual meet together. I am very excited and I hope I will have the first event at UN Plaza hopefully this summer. You'll have to come walk the labyrinth when is installed there. Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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