15 to 27 plastic bags

Posted on Monday July 7th, 2014 by Ines Seidel

From a material with a history that reaches back thousands of years, we have created shopping statements. This cannot be the end of the story. Plastic bags are a cultural misunderstanding. That is why it took conciliatory gestures to grow 18 plastic bags into a wall hanging. And with gestures of joy, 15 plastic bags began to bloom again. 27 other plastic bags began to remember their long history that also includes life on the bottom of a sea.

The last time I was working with plastic bags I created patterns with my little frame loom. See more in this posting.

New word hangings

Posted on Friday July 19th, 2013 by Ines Seidel

At a hobby shop I discovered 25×25 cm pieces of wire mesh. They seemed perfect for stabilizing words on the loose! My first experiment was with text loops circling around the wire. It created an atmospheric 3D structure.
For my second experiment I wanted to sew the text to the wire. I cut Scandinavian troll tales into stripes, marked some with Indian ink and waxed them partially before stitching. The structure got more dense and ready to absorb some characters.

More pictures (click to enlarge)

detail with faces

from the back

work in progress

detail

two word hangings

My first word hangings are heroic legends, crocheted with wool. Have a look!

Mended Bowls

Posted on Wednesday July 3rd, 2013 by Ines Seidel

Creative destruction: Some time ago I made two paper bowls with a bit of blue paper. They turned out rather nice, but something was missing. They had nothing interesting to tell. So I finally destroyed them: I ripped the blue one into three pieces. And from the grey bowl I cut out some drop shaped forms. Well, then I took needle and yarn and mended the broken bowls again.