ARTIST RESEARCH - Benji Whalen - Fiber/Craft

Benji Whalen is a craft artist who uses different mediums to create strange human works of art. He has a series of pieces that are recreations of human arms, made of fabric and stitched together, then covered in tattoos.

He also has series' that are constructions of a pile of different people, made of clay. The piles give off a horrible mass grave feeling, but the faces seem pretty happy, which actually just makes the mass grave thing even weirder.




- Ride the Tiger

  - A Thousand Blunders II

I don't particularly love these pieces, but they are interesting. The clay pieces seem a little childish, they remind me of an old computer game i had that was claymation (it was called Who Stole Hannukah? and it was awesome.)

I like the arms, the hands are a little sloppy looking, but the main focus of the pieces is the tattoos. The tattoos are done very well, and i'm sure the arms look a lot better when they're mounted on a wall in an exhibit.

Benji Whalen