My friend and I went to the Memorial Art Gallery today to take photos for an upcoming Photo Critique on mininalism. We found a few objects that may work well as our contributions, but the most interesting piece of art we saw was this one by Devorah Sperber called “After Grant Wood (American Gothic). The piece was created with 4,596 spools of thread.
From this angle it’s easy to see the images, but when you are in the gallery looking at it straight on, it’s not as clear. As soon as I looked through my viewfinder, the images popped out at me. The gallery provided viewers with a glass ball on a handle. When you look through, this is what you see.
Here are three close-up views:
The first thing that amazed me was the creative thought behind the art work. How does someone come up with an idea for something like this? Then, what must it have taken to execute it? Amazing.
I hope the artist owns stock in a thread company! holy cow.
Very cool – it’s like a giant needlepoint in some ways. And you did a great job of capturing it in your photos.
Rinda
I know what you mean, I am amazed at some of the ideas I hear. Just this week I was listening to an interview of a photography exhibition and it was in the dark – everyone had small handheld torches to view the photos, it was to highlight the point that the photos were taken of a region in Africa where they were living with no electricity … he even had a photo of a C-Section being performed in the dark!
Totally amazing.
Woah! That’s cool, Karen! I’m with you – wondering HOW someone comes up with an idea like that in the first place. Very clever indeed!!!
Sometimes I think the ‘How did they think of it’ is as amazing as the finished piece. You pictures are wonderful and capture the piece so well.
Wow, that is an amazing piece!
What? That was made with spools? Wow! Have no idea how someone came up with that idea either – and how painstaking it must have been to put each particular spool in the right space. Cool.
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