Bamboo Art Kites

[greg kono]

From the Drachen Foundation:
What differentiates an art kite from a traditional kite? Certainly not beauty alone. Many traditional kites are extraordinarily beautiful, while kite maker Marten Bondestam has this to say about art kites: "Artistic kites are kites with some extra intellectual qualities. Beauty is not art. Art can be ugly, but must have an intellectual message." Not just a painting in the sky, an art kite can be a sculpture in the air, a flying billboard of celebration or protest, or an interactive illustration of man and his environment.
link:http://www.drachen.org/about_art_kites.html

Here are a few of my kites:
http://www.bamboocraft.net/gallery/data/3044/thumbs/installation_03.JPG (http://www.bamboocraft.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2247&cat=3044&ppuser=1988) http://www.bamboocraft.net/gallery/data/3044/thumbs/fisherman.jpg (http://www.bamboocraft.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2244&cat=3044&ppuser=1988) http://www.bamboocraft.net/gallery/data/3044/thumbs/solitude.jpg (http://www.bamboocraft.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2251&cat=3044&ppuser=1988)

[greg kono]

I just finished a new kite. The image is a photocollage of a workshop I taught earlier this year with 75 first grade students. We built three 22ft long dragon kites. One of my assistants shot the photos from a camera mounted on a pole. I photo-stiched a few of the images together and printed the final onto washi paper then framed the kite with bamboo.

http://www.bamboocraft.net/gallery/data/3044/thumbs/three_dragons_01m.jpg (http://www.bamboocraft.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2257) http://www.bamboocraft.net/gallery/data/3044/thumbs/three_dragons_02m.jpg (http://www.bamboocraft.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2258) http://www.bamboocraft.net/gallery/data/3044/thumbs/three_dragons_03m.jpg (http://www.bamboocraft.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2259)

[greg kono]

Here are a few images and a description of some my recent art kites being displayed at Bainbridge Arts and Crafts Gallery from Aug 1-26.
http://www.konodesign.com/filterkites.html

[CaroleMeckes]

Hi Greg,
Your floating filters are "far out" ('far out' is one of my old favorite sayings that I always loved to use in those days of 'youthfulness'...)
very clever idea!
Congrats on a cool showing of your filter kites.
Carole

[greg kono]

thanks Carole