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Today I discovered the amazing art of Michael Zelehoski. At first I couldn't make sense of what I was seeing on the computer screen.
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Were they actual boxes and pallets? Photographs ? Paintings?
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"involves the literal collapse of three-dimensional objects and structures into the picture plane. This simple gesture – which is basically just taking things apart and putting them back together flat – is at the heart of what we think of as two-dimensional, representational art."
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I was so enthralled when I made this discovery that I called my husband to look. He had a puzzled expression on his face. LOOK! this guy has flattened a box and made a picture from it so it still looks like a box and you aren't even sure whether it is 3 dimensional or two!!! And do you know what he said ?
"I don't get it."
In all fairness, I did drag him away from the rugby ...... and he usually gets it.
Have a look at Michael's process here to see how he collapses the object and puts it all together again.
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"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan
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Have a look at Michael's process here to see how he collapses the object and puts it all together again.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbpOoGGGJFki5oRqBWicYZo4jWYq9tzAlAhy4NkPyydvW-6yEi__7warG0eBQD337wPrym8ZyJLWLL7TmR3yEMAgjXta-Zrsi_qTuntS-Y8uuERossTUIz4F-QO9HIFPnVlCx0YmiwqRAf/s400/michael+zelehoski++..jpg)
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan