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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. Do you think that really impacted your work?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 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.Sharon: Absolutely. 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.
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. There are also ironies about it for me. A stage in a theater on Broadway, it’s in a box.Marc: It all made a lot of sense to me.
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.
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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.Along 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. People can watch it if they want. We have a series called Traveler’s Ball. I know we don’t make jewelry.
I only made two dozen of them in my life.If you look at an Apple Watch, they finally did what I was thinking about doing in 1985. 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.
I always wanted to take that idea and put it on a small scale and add the element of art to it. A point of view is putting characters in front of something, like we are in real life people standing on the street corner talking, meanwhile the bus is going by. The missing ingredient is a point of view. 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.
There’s something about that I only made one-of-a-kind images.In the beginning, I used other people’s images—the fine art of appropriation. I’m famous for a lot of things, but I’m also famous for the fact that I never like to make any of these things more than once or twice. Not everyone’s going to have a Marc Cohen version of that, and I want to keep it that way.
Think about that: Utopia, New York. He was an eccentric guy who lived in Utopia, New York. Joseph Cornell made boxes. Rauschenberg and Warhol, when they talk about their own art and their influences, they always bring up the name Joseph Cornell. Joseph Cornell is probably the grandfather of appropriation art.
But I’ve had people along the way say, “You’re like a modern-day Joseph Cornell.” I don’t know what that exactly means. They’re incredibly expensive. He made all these different boxes, and you can’t buy one.
For example, Lisa Berman has a relative whose name is Virginia Apgar. I want a box with us and our wedding picture with it.”Marc: Exactly. Do people commission you and say, “It’s my husband’s anniversary. What else could I tell you?Sharon: I’m curious. It’s an interesting thing for me that has followed me in this jewelry story.
There’s a forever stamp, and this is Virginia Apgar.Marc: A frame with the brooch in the middle, and all around are these images of Virginia. Lisa, being an old friend of mine, I felt like I wanted to give her a memento. There was an event Lisa was going to be doing. I don’t know if your viewers know what that is, but they can look it up.
Still Life was the early stages of box art, but it wasn’t in a box. Originally, when I first started doing things, I started a company called Still Life. That’s how I came up with this idea of making Lisa a one-of-a-kind, object of art concept.Sharon, I want to tell you another thing: how the box art thing really started. I’m influenced by that too.
I would have people at the beach. I had little three-dimensional palm trees, and I would glue them to the surface of this round, circular piece of plastic, and then I would glue those figures I’m telling you about. On top of that, I would marry other things.
I’m still very fertile with a lot of ideas. That doorway I was speaking about earlier opened me up even further into where I am to this day. The point is that when I was doing Still Life, one night, I came across the idea of taking a little box and turning it into something you wear. Still Life creation stages is how it evolved to the boxes. I had like Still Life Creations Beach, Still Life Creations Travel, on and on.
They’re not as easily going to jump in. Some people have the ability to get on that stage and act and do, while other people are off on the side watching. All the world’s a stage, and all of us are players on that stage. It’s not easy to do in New York or anywhere, but I don’t think New York is the conversation-starting capital of the world, let’s say.Marc: Right. I love the idea that they’re door openers and conversation starters that break down barriers.
She mentioned it to me, and I was trying to figure out what I could do with boxes to make a collar. She invited all her wearable art friends to come up with a collar idea. When she was out of being a Supreme Court justice, Lisa had this idea for a show.
My wife, who is very gorgeous—she used to be a model, among other things in her life—she wore it. I made it in such a way that you could take this off and wear it around your neck as a necklace. This is a series of 18 boxes in a square. Behind me—Sharon: We’ll show a picture of this when we post the podcast so people can see it.Marc: Right, behind me is this.
