Thursday, January 29, 2009

Some dark works




This vessel is hair cut from my head and saved over the years. Human hair has a wonderful quality, it remains lively forever. To make this shape I started with a small bundle and kept stitching and devloping witha strong cotton thread. It is a circular shape but not coiled as such. More cobbled together. i left a tuft free on the interior to give the form a breathing hole.Its titled Dark Vessel.

Here is a book made from a salvaged grey blanket. there are 16 leaves, giving 32 surfaces and the spine is strong blanket stitching. On alternate pages rpws of xanthorrhoea bracts are stitched, then on the reverse the rows of stitching appears as lines of writing. On the further alternate pages there are objects, hair, cloth,small stones, hand twined string and a dolls dress.
The book is titled Double dialogue, its a series of short stories contained with an overall story.