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Tuft Enough Sculpture
United States
Sculpture, Fabric on Paper
Size: 16 W x 23 H x 8 D in
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This fiber art piece will be on display at my show, "Well-Suited," at Brown University's Sarah Doyle Gallery in September 2016. This is part of a larger series called The Lottery Project, started in 2005. More on this here: http://www.rebeccasiemering.com I collect lottery tickets and betting slips from my neighborhood every day, and transform the losing tickets into items of desired clothing. This is the size of a baby. Paper has historically been used as a way to provide warmth, from the sliding doors in Japan, to Prairie sod houses, to fill in the cracks. During the renovation of my turn of the century house, the cracks in the floorboards were filled with newspaper. I thought of the dreams of this paper, to provide protection in one way or another. The found betting slips are hand cut and fringed, and sewn on with dental floss in little tufts.
Original Created:2016
Subjects:Children
Materials:PaperSoft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)
Styles:ConceptualFigurative
Details & Dimensions
Sculpture:Fabric on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:16 W x 23 H x 8 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Rebecca Siemering was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1974, and lives and works in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. She received a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis, and is an installation artist, arts administrator and curator. For the majority of her career, she has explored the theme of "wanting the good life," utilizing found materials. Currently she is producing sculptures and textile art for her "Lottery Project" by taking a daily walk in the neighborhood and picking up thrown away scratch tickets. From her findings she creates animistic textile pieces and tapestries. Her methodical, yet compulsive style of stitch and needlework reflects the original obsession-to rise above the mundane, the sculpture embodying a soul that exists apart from the corporeal article of ink and pulp. Her recycled, paper-based work is in the collection of Fidelity Investments, and in traveling in shows with the Robert C. Williams Paper Museum, the Fuller Craft Museum and Fiber Art International. www.rebeccasiemering.com
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