Regarding my hair I have been collecting, I was thinking about what I can actually do with it all. Thinking about my work and what is actually working for me, I am finding that when I create a piece using my collections they become more appealing I feel due to the collection representing me. With my collections being used to make a piece makes more use of the collection transforming them into something else more exciting. This remind me of Subodh Gupta transforming old pots and pans into mass sculptures.
I have been gathering quite a vast amount of hair with the amount I seem to lose. I therefore decided that I would actually use my hair in my work. Thinking about different ways to approach this idea I thought of the idea of using it to sew with due to its thin consistency.
In my house back home, we had some spare net curtain so linking to the idea of my work portraying me I felt this would be quite appropriate.
As my initial idea was to use my hair to sew with, this is what I began to do with this net curtain. However due to the really fine thickness of the pieces of hair it became more of a challenge to use it in this way than I first had thought.
To overcome this I thought it might be more successful if the hair was gathered together more so you could actually see the texture of the hair. I planned on using hair to sew the hair to the net, however I wasn’t sure how strong the hair would be at attaching due to the fine consistency.
I then decided to use white thread to sew the hair on to match the colour of the curtain. I decided to sew around some of the patterns on the curtain to enhance these patterns, allowing the hair to stand out. I wasn’t sure how well this was going to work with white cotton threaded through the hair. However due to the texture of the curtain it actually blended in really well. It is not that obvious until the viewer gets close which I really like. Drawing the viewer in until they notice the abject materiality of it. I like the way in which this collection of hair has been turned into something and sewed through the curtain to leave a trace of me. I also like how some pieces of the hair are contained neatly through the thread, while some pieces of hair appear to be escaping from the boundaries of the thread which gives it more of an abject feeling. That a piece could escape and land itself upon the viewer…
