Country: New Zealand


Artwork One

Title: Conjoined

Materials and Technique: Alpaca, Corriedale

Inspiration: Connecting to IFA from the other side of the world, it seems fitting to construct a work of two hemispheres. I am often inspired by nature and the challenge of incorporating materials I already have in my stash. In this case I wanted to combine Alpaca with Corriedale on the one resist and manage the different felting and skrinkage rates to combine them into one structure. I was left with the Corriedale part at a greater height, so I cut the prefelt to form leaves so show the underlying structure. I like the way the double vessels support each other they are symbiotic in nature and are reversible neither hemispher is dominant

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Conjoined by Fay Barnaby