Jenine Shereos is an aritst who sews with hair to create delicate leaf sculptures. I tried sewing with my hair and it was really frustrating. I kept losing the end and it really didn’t work for me, no wonder it takes her months to create one sculpture. I found a quote by her on the Los Angeles Times website,
“I love the idea of working with an everyday material that you would think of as maybe even kind of gross and transforming that into something completely different than what it was before,”
I felt this quote in a way relates to my work as I have used watse everyday material and used them in another way such as the wipes for my dress. However my work isn’t beauitful looking in the end like her fragile leaves. Her work is subtle like mine. It is only once you get right up close and personal with her work that you see one wisp of hair that extends past the points of each leaf which is the only clue we are given that is actually hair creating this leaf frame.
Lion, L. (2013) Jenine Shereos’ ‘Leaves,’ stitched with human hair. [Online]. Los Angeles: Los Angeles Times. Available at: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/01/news/la-lh-jenine-shereos-leaves-stitched-with-human-hair-20120731 (Accessed: 23 May 2013).
