In the Arts:
Award-winning filmmakers Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine) document the SMMoA exhibition Elias Sime: Eye of the Needle, Eye of the Heart. Using yarn, plastics, tattered fabric, buttons, used plastic, and bottle tops, each of the collages and stitched canvases Elias Sime creates for Elias Sime: Eye of the Needle, Eye of the Heart represent a complete essay about the current state of his surroundings. Sime’s three-dimensional sculptures are made with traditional organic Ethiopian building materials such as mud and straw, as well as wood, metal, and other found objects, gathered in part by neighborhood children...[continue reading]
Elias Sime, installation view (2009)
