Spirit of Spring
Saturday, January 15th, 2011
This looks similar to my earlier picture Blossoming (and is based on another “slice” of the same tree) but is created differently, by gluing down thread lint rather than with machine stitching. There’s a little bit of hand stitching of branches and twigs.
Yes, it did take ages, and no, I don’t mind : )
To make the lint I chop up thread in the colours that I want. There are people who make art from dryer lint by the way.
Maybe the camera doesn’t catch it, but the lint is heaped up a few mm thick in places, so that it sticks out at you. Because the spirit of spring just cannot be restrained : ) The darker, shadowed parts I squashed down deliberately to make them recede physically away from you. A certain amount of sculpting has gone on in this piece, on a small scale (I use my fingers or a toothpick).
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I leave you with a wee close-up.
