Mary
is crocheting - public-sites activity.
Over the years my
aesthetic and artistic point of view has developed from egocentrism
to my interest in others, real communication with the viewer /audience or
'co-worker'.
The main theme of the project is our acceptance of fate, agreement
to life, resignation of rebellion/struggling against adversities of life.
The
crocheting/handicrafts in my work mostly refers to woman's role in
our society and stereotypes ascribed to womenhood.
Mary is
crocheting - the performance accompaning the instalation of 10
garden dwarves, wearing crocheted slippers with pom-poms, as the sweet reminder
of my childhood times. They 'came' from Nowa Sól - famous/well-known
Polish dwarf-production-area and were presented for the first time in my
anti-fables show in Wozownia Gallery, Toruń, 2005.
The current
project expands this '10 brothers story' into the world shaped by
traditional forms of handiwork. The idea is to give each of them a leading
motive/ main characteristic based on unpredictable daily happenings.
Progressively I will be producing diaries for them, memorizing all important
moments from their life.
At the moment I'm finishing a new helmet-cap
for one of the dwarves. He 's had a small crash, had been knocked over by
an accidental passer-by during my show. After that catastrophe, called the Little Weakling (Słabeuszek), he's getting a protective helmet, knee-pads and
elbow-pads to secure him from another gallery-visitor.
The last
show was presented at Freies Museum Berlin in Dec. 2011. Luckyly after many
years of searching ... Papa-dwarf has been found. Yoopee!
I am an artist interested in helping by making felted mushrooms for your project. I have sent an email to the address on the Slavic Folklore Page but wanted to be sure you received my message.You can contact me on facebook if you like: https://www.facebook.com/DianaHeyneArtist
ReplyDeleteThanks Diana :-) That's what I did right now :-)
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