HOUSEPLANTS by Daniel Gordon

This is a collection of works by Daniel Gordon, an American artist who is active not only in the United States but also in Europe, including exhibits at MoMA (New York Museum of Modern Art) in the United States and THE SAATCHI GALLERY in the UK. This book is made up of six pop-up pieces, ranging from simple plant motifs to more elaborate works. After becoming interested in certain motifs that are popular on the Internet, especially houseplants, the author prints out, cuts out, collages, and reconstructs images collected from the Internet to create sculpture and eccentric "still life." Instead of using photographs to show reality, they tried to physically construct layers using photographs and express them as new things.

「Without seams, obstacles, or limitations, my project would have been completely different."The author said, and as a result, he completed a work filled with naturalness and unnaturalness. Their works are the perfect fusion of the respective processes in which digital and analog images arise, and the "high" and "low" in art citations, and aim to dare to complicated what is understood by the world as sculpture, photography, painting, and paper cutters. This work shows the sculpture work as a pop-up performance and animates it with its rising movement, making the book itself a reality as an art piece.

This highly collectible, limited-edition pop-up book is a work of art in itself, rendering Daniel Gordon’s sculptural forms into a new layer of materiality and animating them in a pop-up performance. The book consists of six works in pop-up form, some featuring simple plants, others unfolding more elaborate tableaux.

Inspired by his interest in the popularity of certain subjects on the internet—houseplants among them—Gordon meticulously cuts up pictures found online to create sculptural and fantastic still lives. He uses photography not to show reality, but to present a new version of it. The crumpled paper and mix of realistic and unnatural colors render the objects slightly goofy. “Without seas and faults and limitations, my project would be very different,” Gordon says. “The seamlessness of the ether is boring to me, but the materialization of that ether, I think, can be very interesting.“ His pieces are a perfect marriage of digital and analog processes and of high and low artistic references, complicating what is understood as sculpture, photography, painting, and the cutout.