{"id":4391,"date":"2017-05-15T08:48:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T08:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/?p=4391"},"modified":"2017-07-31T15:03:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T15:03:53","slug":"pushpin-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/pushpin-art","title":{"rendered":"Pushpin Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

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They\u2019re pushpins <\/a>\u2013 but not as you know them! American artist Eric Daigh astounded the art world when he created amazing mosaic portraits from different coloured pushpins \u2013 a feat which took many hours to pull off.<\/p>\n

Michigan-based Daigh is a process artist who starts his pushpin projects by taking a series of photographs. He then uses a computer to break the images down to a low resolution using only a few colours (black, white, red, blue and yellow). He then uses a grid map to help him stick thousands of pushpins into rows and create the image he wants.<\/p>\n

Daigh first won acclaim in 2009 when he took third place in the Inaugural ArtPrize<\/a> competition in Grand Rapids. Since then he has created a world record for artwork using pushpins \u2013 he used 109,687 pins to make an impressive piece for automaker Acura.<\/p>\n

A standard pushpin portrait by Daigh uses 11,000- 25,000 pins.<\/p>\n

On Daigh\u2019s website<\/a>, he states, \u201cI enjoy very much making something digital with my hands. I enjoy making work that requires a physical proximity. I enjoy the fact that this work travels from the intangible, the binary, to the tactile, the singular.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy invoking these mediums, I hope to generate a dialogue and sentiment that has something to do with the effort, repetition, focus, discipline, absurdity, and love that went into its making.\u201d<\/p>\n