mel chin

  • Buffalo Bayou Wheel Study

    1981
    materials
    22 x 29 inches

  • Study for Untitled Landscape with Myrhha P.I.A.

    1979
    graphite, photocopy, watercolor on paper
    8 x 7 inches

  • Manilla Palm

    Manilla Palm


    1978
    Manilla rope, burlap, steel, fiberglass
    60 feet tall, 16 feet diameter

    Manilla Palm     is a full-scale artificial palm tree erupting out of a metal pyramid with cracks that map the White Nile and Blue Nile rivers.

  • Disputed Boundaries

    Disputed Boundaries


    1977
    glass, paraffin, sand, wood
    36 x 48 inches

    The wall eventually crumbles over the fence ignored.

  • Homage to Cornell

    Homage to Cornell

    Homage to Cornell, 1
    strapping tape, paper, silk, cotton, photocopy, newsprint, map fragments, brass grommet, foil paper, fir wood frame


    Homage to Cornell, 2
    silk, graphite, wood veneer, acrylic medium, strapping tape, clay coated photocopy of Cornell, fir wood frame

    Homage to Cornell, 3
    clay coated thermal paper, glass, crushed auto glass, paint soaked feather, fir wood frame

    1976
    tryptich
    each 18 x 24 inches

    A triptych in homage to Joseph Cornell based on one of Cornell’s favorite poems by Stéphane Mallarmé in the manner of Marcel Duchamp.

  • See-Saw

    See-Saw


    1976
    existing landscape, steel, hydraulics, rubber
    This project was commissioned for the Houston Main Street Festival Monumental Sculpture Exhibition in 1976.

    Consisting of two 6 ft by 6 ft “planter boxes” set approximately 60 ft apart, and linked by a hydraulic system. A participant standing on one part of the “incised” ground would slowly sink while watching the other section of the ground silently and simultaneously rise.