Woven Form
I wove the form from long stems of ivy, pushing the leaves through the ivy strands to hold them in place as I wound them around. I noticed that the inside became covered in ivy leaves, concealing the method of construction, and making an interesting internal space. I decided to leave a hole in the form so that the viewer might peer inside.
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Woven Form Weave detail   |
Woven hanging form with stack of Stefani
Stefani Stack
Looking into the hole in top of the Stefani Stack
I piled the Stefani up into a stack with the smallest Stefani at the top, so that there is a small hole. I inserted an MP3 player and portable speaker in order to play a recording of woven voices I had layered together from recordings of the Stefani workshop participants. The recording plays very softly so that as you pass by you might just hear the feint background noise of these woven voices, recalling memories of the workshop.
Stefani Stack detail
Column of Stones
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| Column of Chalk Stones from the beach in Ramsgate |
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| Base detail |
Stem detail
Forms woven from toilet tissue paper
These extraordinary forms look as if they are standing on fragile tentacles although they are actually hanging from very fine fishing line. I accentuated the illusion by running strands from the top of one stem section to another, connecting some of the forms together and diverting the viewer's gaze from the ceiling.
The fragility of the long stem sections echo the form of the column of stones placed behind them at the end of the corridor. Both suggest a backbone or an umbilical cord perhaps.
Detail of stem section
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