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Following on from the recent post about our friend Blue’s recent adventures with creative mark making, it reminded me of the fantastic unique artwork created by the equally fantastic and unique Torben Ulrich:

T.U.’s work with ball, rope, racquet, and rice paper has its beginnings in 1971, when the Lions Club of Copenhagen asked a variety of politicians, actors, writers and others to make “a blue elephant” for a charity exhibit to benefit a senior center in Denmark.

Today, using primarily skipping rope and tennis racquet and ball, T.U. makes imprints with ink and / or acrylic on rice paper. First, with the rice paper on the ground, weighted down, he skips an inked rope onto the rice paper. When dry, the paper is then posted or held against a wall and an inked ball is played / volleyed onto it. Later, a text may be added.

T.U. tends to call these works “rice papers”. Some are photographed and go into the computer, where the colors or textures are sampled or played with further.

• Paintings by Torben Ulrich.
• Torben Ulrich.com – home to all of his other creations, including music, film and writing.
• Apparently his son is quite a creative type too.