Thread portraits

 

Yesterday my friend D and I went browsing around the PULSE contemporary art fair. Truth be told neither of us have the pockets deep enough to get anything for our private collection but it was fun anyway. One of my favorite things was this Marilyn portrait made entirely out of spools of thread. 3,024 spools to be exact. I have long been fascinated by the fact that we see things upside down and then our brain turns them right side up. The artist, Devorah Sperber makes these portraits upside down and then provides a spherical glass to view the "pixelated" image through. She says "I am interested in the link between art, science, and technology, how the eyes and brain prioritize, and reality as a subjective experience vs. an absolute truth. As a visual artist, I cannot think of a topic more stimulating and yet so basic, than the act of seeing--how the human brain makes sense of the visual world. " 

Also I really love the word "spool." Its not one I get to use often.

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