Friday, August 05, 2011

Unconventional materials

Andrew Myers screw art is interesting.

Seeing this reminded me of a surprisingly beautiful picture I once saw on exhibition at (probably) the Hayward Gallery - must be at least 20 years ago now.

It was an abstract, made entirely from those little semi transparent white plastic tags used to attach shop labels to clothes. The texture & 'pattern', the impression of movement, came from minute differences in the length of the tag left proud of the canvas

Wondering if there is a proper name for these led me to an instructional film on How to use tag gun

Isn't the internet wonderful