I wanted to take a few entries to share a little bit of some of the work Jen Stark has introduced to me recently. Lately I have been utilizing balloons as a tool in the studio to assist with some hand building and slip casting with ceramics. Jen sent me a link to a page with some of Pini Leibovich's work work after some discussion about my own experimentation with balloons in the studio. 
In this series, the artist has constructed a blanket made up of the type of balloons used for balloon art making in their deflated state. I love the use of a familiar object in play. I've been attracted to these types of balloons for use in my own work because of the playfulness the assortment of colors creates. I associate this material with a lot of joy and it is interesting to see the balloons gathered together in this way, smothering the objects they are draped over. This work calls to mind a lesson I have learned from Jen: the medium used doesn't have to be extravagant to have an impact on the viewer. The composition of the material is a major part of the effect. Seeing what this artist has done with balloons is comparable to what Jen is able to do with paper and that is a transformation of a simple material into something extraordinary.
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