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Office Artist

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Office Artist Larissa Brown finds beauty in ordinary office supplies. Read the full description.
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Droffice_small A towering curve of yellow interoffice envelopes sits in the lobby of a Portland office building. It's the work of visual artist Larissa Brown. After this office worker took a sculpture class, she became inspired to make art pieces from the supplies at work -- shipping tags, staplers, and typewriter ribbon. Premiered on Studio 360.

See more of Larissa Brown's work at

http://larissabrown.net/ 

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A towering curve of yellow interoffice envelopes sits in the lobby of a Portland office building. It's the work of visual artist Larissa Brown. After this office worker took a sculpture class, she became inspired to make art pieces from the supplies at work -- shipping tags, staplers, and typewriter ribbon. Premiered on Studio 360.

See more of Larissa Brown's work at

http://larissabrown.net/ 

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Ellen Van WYk

Posted on April 25, 2009 at 12:40 PM | Permalink

Website???

There was a website featuring her work mentioned at the end of the piece when I heard it on the radio but it's not here! Does anyone know what it is?
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Justin Grotelueschen

Posted on October 17, 2004 at 09:25 AM | Permalink

Review of Office Artist

I've tried to make art out of office supplies before, but it doesn't look anywhere near as cool as this stuff. I would like this story more as a Flash presentation. The audio is solid, and the artist isn't stuffy or pretentious, but you really want/need to see how this artist's ideas manifest themselves.

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Matt Kaufman

Posted on August 11, 2004 at 11:50 AM | Permalink

Office Artist - great topic, could use some editing

Overall, I like the piece and the concept a lot, but it feels a bit "loose" and could be a little sharper. No need for new recording, just tightening. Would certainly be appropriate for Morning Edition/All things considered.

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Premiered on Studio 360.

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OFFICE ARTIST
SOUND: STORE AMBIENCE, FOOTSTEPS

LARISSA: My name is Larissa and I'm here at a huge office supply mega store that I'm not going to name cos they declined my request for a donation for typewriter ribbon but I'm here shopping. One of the things I like to do is go up and down the aisle at office supply stores and look at things. I like envelope aisle cos there are a lot of each thing and the paper is really yummy. And I'm one of those people who open things. They probably hate me but I try to close them back up. So I open boxes and feel everything. I like to feel the paper cos with the envelopes if I'm going to do something with a lot of envelopes they have to be wonderful envelopes. These are kind of thin. I kind of stretch what people actually use at work. I err on the side of things that look better as art. So might not be the actual envelope you'd use at the offic...
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