Them and Us...

Born in California in 1971, Patrick Jacobs currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Jacobs earned his BFA from the University of West Florida in 1994 and his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999.

He works with these diorama models which are made in a way to create an illusion of a landscape, his works are actually really impressive in a way that the objects he creates are made up of totally artificial material, but eventually they create a illusion of landscape....

How does he do it

He first set up the lenses, a platform for the scene behind the lenses and LED lighting. Using tweezers, pliers, brushes, knives. He builds the model while viewing it through the lenses. The scenes are both foreshortened and elongated to counteract the distortion of the lenses.

Materials used

He uses different types of hair, depending upon the piece. Fluffy dandelion seed heads, for example, are made out of various sizes of white hairs from cat fur. According to him a cluster can take weeks to complete...Damnn. Other materials include neoprene, wax, copper wire, and gampi tissue paper, vellum, paper clay, foam, and aluminum foil for creating plants, leaves, flowers as well as bodies of water and mountains. He also use hemp fibers and vellum for creating various sizes of grasses. Impressively most often the cheapest and the most available materials could do so much to the works he produces for making these piece...

 When i see works like these produced in the other parts of the world, being an artist i ask myself the question, why don't artists in Pakistan produce works that  are so impressive and uses technology...although this one does not uses so much of technology....for the answer i think its the galleries or the art collectors that vary from place to place...although in our times art is a global language(as they say), but eventually as we a under developed people have to some how think and create the works that could sell...Its because of the situation that surrounds us, the corruption, inflation, currency prices and so an so. Galleries and collectors only invest on the works that had the selling power in them..

Let me narrate this with an example...

These are the most well known contemporary Paki-based artist that works with experimental mediums

Hamra abass, Faiza Butt, Rashid Rana and a few of more including Nusra Latif...

These Paki based artist mostly live abroad, work abroad and sell abroad...May be that is the reason we living in Pakistan get to see very less work that falls under new media category.