It is amazing to see somebody with an Apple Watch and all the different things it does, but for me, there’s a missing ingredient. The only difference is theirs is a one-dimensional object you wear on your wrist. If you look at an Apple Watch, they finally did what I was thinking about doing in 1985. I only made two dozen of them in my life. People would see this thing on my wrist and go, “What is that?” I would show them, and they would all go, “Wow, that’s unreal! It’s big, but that’s amazing! When are you going to sell these?” I said, “I’m not ready to sell them yet.” I did eventually sell some. When I was selling on the street, I would wear one and boxes on my lapel. I don’t have one to show you-Lisa might have one-but I made these. For example, I made three-dimensional, two-inch-square watches on a band. The nanos and the microscopic things, images on the head of a pin, that wasn’t around when I first started. A long time ago, when I first started making these things-I’m a man with a lot of information and ideas in my brain-the technology wasn’t there yet. A lot of our videos have layered images.Īlong those lines, I have always wanted to create a box video on a small scale.
She was inspired by what I do, where I do images layered in a box. My wife is a filmmaker, and she and I are developing another kind of box art. There’s not a moment I don’t have gratitude about that friendship, but since then I’ve married. He was my best friend in the entire world. He did a lot of avant garde, off-off Broadway stuff. It came from working in theater with someone like Tom O’Horgan, who was way ahead of his time as a Broadway theater director. It breaks down that barrier that a lot of us have with each other. Once someone engages themselves in looking at it and then they end up talking to somebody, it opens up a whole other kind of thing. I like to think the boxes I create are about that, but they’re beyond. For example, when I talked about when I was going to high school and people would look at me and think I’m an artist, what they were doing was putting me in a box. A stage in a theater on Broadway, it’s in a box. When I got involved in theater-I also did film-I saw what that was about and how everything was in a frame. I think because I already was someone who had been traveling around the world and already had experiences that were theatrical, because I was meeting people and talking to people standing in the middle of the street in Paris, I was already getting the idea. I’m skirting away from your answer, so excuse me. Marc: To answer you in an honest way, I think if I hadn’t done those things-all I did before was put little seashells in boxes. Do you think that really impacted your work? Do you think the boxes would be as effective if you hadn’t had this experience as a set designer or stage manager in the theater? If I sat down and made a box, I could just stick some figures in it. Read the episode transcript for part 2 below. He joined the Jewelry Journey Podcast to talk about his process for creating box art what it was like to work with theater greats like Tom O’Horgan and Paula Wagner and why his pieces are more than just shadow boxes. Part three-dimensional art, part jewelry, the two-by-two boxes feature images and tiny figures that reflect our world. Inspired by his time in theater and created to resemble a stage, Marc Cohen’s box art pieces are well-known among rare jewelry lovers and Hollywood’s most famous artists, actors and producers.
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The archive of Cohen’s work is housed at California art jewelry gallery Sculpture to Wear. His one-of-a-kind pieces sit on the shelves of numerous celebrities and can be worn like a brooch or pin. As a former actor, stage manager and set designer, Cohen’s two-inch-square boxes resemble stage sets with three-dimensional figures and images. Marc Cohen is a highly regarded artist known for his wearable box art. Why box art is a conversation starter that breaks down barriers.Why artists have always borrowed from each other’s work.How Marc went from selling his work on the streets of New York City to selling them to Hollywood’s biggest celebrities.Why Marc’s box art jewelry was inspired by his time working in the theater industry.
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