Elana Herzog has been stapling textiles to walls for ten years. A strange combination unless you imagine the staples becoming a stitch attaching textile to the wall. What makes her work so endearing is what she does after she's applied thousands of staples to a blanket (I'm guessing she has a strong arm by now). She removes most of the blanket, leaving behind a ghost imprint of the orginal textile and pattern.
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| Untitled 2, 2001. Cotton chenille bedspread, metal staples, drywall, plywood 91.5 x 84 inches Elana Herzog |
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| Untitled 2 detail, 2001. Cotton chenille bedspread, metal staples, drywall, plywood 91.5 x 84 inches Elana Herzog |
I also fell in love with her collage work where she presses together textiles and paper pulp to create some wonderful patterns that remind me of, you guessed it, house lots.
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| Untitled 2010. Handmade cotton paper and textiles, 16 x 13 inches. Elana Herzog |
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| Untitled 2010. Handmade abaca, textile, 11 x 14 inches. Elana Herzog |
To see lots more of Elana's work as well as many of her impressive installations, see her website here.
They do look like housing lots indeed! From now on we will associate all square pieces of fabric with houses and foreclosures...
ReplyDeletei like the layering of paper and textiles in the next to the last photo.
ReplyDeleteAren't those collages great?! ;-) @Kitty!
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ReplyDeleteThe stapling and un-stapling of the fiber just blows me away. I would love to know what first made her decide to experiment with this. The resulting texture is fabulous, and I of course love that worn and weathered effect.
ReplyDeleteLovely work! I always think i'm too neat and try to cross that border of myself.But here it looks not neat but it is.I have something to think about.
ReplyDeleteThanks for showing!
very interesting pieces! the paper pulp work has a lot of creative possibilities, i just love the textural element to her work.
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