These colour studies draw out colours from my pop up collection. Threads wrapped round multiple times in multiple directions simplify the various colours and textures I found. These studies will not only inform my weave designs in terms of colour proportions but also are objects in their own right.
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| wrappings around bark |
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| a matchbox wrapping of a twig |
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| open it up and there's the roots! |
Alice Anderson
Whilst walking the streets of Soho in the rain I walked past a building in which various people were winding fine copper threads round objects. The door being open, I gingerly entered. Having that very day done a wrapping and winding workshop I found this all very apt so I asked a few questions, my probing revealed this was in fact a piece of performance art by Alice Anderson a contemporary artist who aims to enact preservation and repair of a diversity of objects including personal items such as her mobile phone and in today's case what seemed to be a 5 piece band! I found her work highly intriguing as these somewhat common place objects had be re-created in to something much more valuable with the lustre of the fine copper threads and indeed the very act of wrapping and winding which is a procedure which requires much time and care.
http://www.alice-anderson.org/
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