Friday 11 October 2013
Gossamer web
Isn't this amazing? It was my favorite exhibit in the 'Cloth and Memory' exhibition. By a Japanese artist, it is made of individual rice grains threaded on cotton.
Yoriko Yoneyama – Japan
(yorikoyoneyama.jimdo.com)
Artist whose installation comprises a suspended web of dried rice threaded on fine cotton. Her intention is to link those overlooked elements which are essential to our survival and our cultural heritage: food and clothing - rice and fibre.
Labels:
art,
exhibition,
Saltaire,
Salts Mill
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i like this very much! Rice , really !!
ReplyDeleteindividual rice grains? Oh my!
ReplyDeleteI liked this one and the one with the floating cubes!
ReplyDeleteThis is unusual. It looks like an exhibition I saw (and showed on my blog) last year at MassMOCA, a contemporary art museum in the Berkshires, near Williamstown.
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