This series is constructed from a collection of ladies kid leather gloves. The gloves suggest to me the body (its fragility); preoccupations with revealing or containing it; and escape through role-playing and costume. They are altered, hand-sewn, fitted with skeletal wire armatures, and stuffed with sawdust to become discrete objects. Some incorporate doll parts or doll making techniques. In un-making them, I think of women's traditions of handwork, particularly in long hours of sewing, but they are also reminiscent of doll-things or toys.
Language and art are tools, and playthings. I make objects to see what they will look like, but mainly to give form to ideas that can't be put to words, and names to images that arrive in the imagination wholly unexpectedly.
Full Description
This series is constructed from a collection of ladies kid leather gloves. The gloves suggest to me the body (its fragility); preoccupations with revealing or containing it; and escape through role-playing and costume. They are altered, hand-sewn, fitted with skeletal wire armatures, and stuffed with sawdust to become discrete objects. Some incorporate doll parts or doll making techniques. In un-making them, I think of women's traditions of handwork, particularly in long hours of sewing, but they are also reminiscent of doll-things or toys.
Language and art are tools, and playthings. I make objects to see what they will look like, but mainly to give form to ideas that can't be put to words, and names to images that arrive in the imagination wholly unexpectedly.
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2007
- Submitted to ArtBase: Wednesday May 14th, 2008
- Original Url: http://www.clairewatsonart.com
- Permalink: http://www.clairewatsonart.com
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Work Credits:
- Claire Watson, creator
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