Maria Aparicio Puentes
A female artist from Santiago de Chile. She creates very special works where she connects people and objects around them together with threads.
She has a very interesting way of using two different materials. She takes photographs (by Berta Pfirsich) and then sew on them.
Here are some of her works ( which i like most)
This one look very interesting where the toes are connected to the clothes. I cant seem to get a meaning out of it but it feels that its trying to show everything in our life is (kinda) connected~ The way she uses the photo and thread looks very natural yet surreal. I think this is because she uses specific points on objects like the middle of the toes to the dots on the pattern of the shirt, instead of just random points everywhere.
This one i really like. At first, it just look like stitching on the bed or just some curtain like thing attatched to the bed. But as your eyes follow the stitch that goes down the bed, it connects onto the figure and this kind of confuses the viewer, thinking whether this is real or not.
This just feel like a wide lens camera, capturing everything or peripheral vision. The strings some how messes with the perspective and gets the viewer thinking.
This is another one of my favourite. This one, the lines highlights the sense of perspective and also giving it a sense of space.
This one, the idea is interesting although it does not have as much creativity as her other works has.
I really like this one as she just creates lines on the hair and it kind of shows how the hair falls and slowly falls over the shoulders. It makes us look at the image in a different way.
This looks as if these lines are everywhere in our everyday lives as it looks just so very realistic, blending into the photo very naturally and at the same time, illustrating the connection between human and object.
Finally I would like to compare these two works. The photos are exactly the same, just that the lines are different. The one above give me a feeling like its about exploration, where the lines creep up slowly taking the ideas of the images on the table to the people. While the one below depicts solid geometric shapes and it looks like the people in the photo knew exactly what they are looking for, where the lines go straight towards them.
I feel that this is a very easy yet creative form of art. I would really love to try it out. As for me, I will take a picture that has very obvious sense of perspective and using the lines, create a totally opposite perspective and this should keep the viewer thinking. To me this art is all about imagination and alot on creativity. I guess this has inspired me to just go ahead and be creative as we would never know before we try! <3
Go check out more of her works on her website!!
Here's another interesting artist that i did not cover. His style of art is very similar to Maria's one where he also uses threads. However, he made it even bigger, into installations~ go check it out!
cargocollective.com
just so you get an idea!
Have Fun!!! <3
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