Hair art

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Wenda Gu’s “united nations: united colours” made from 7 or so miles of hair…

…artist Wenda Gu’s latest installation provokes aren’t because of its size, but its contents: 420 pounds of human hair. A viewer’s first impulses are to lean forward and scrutinize the swirling, flattened locks; stealthily sniff (it doesn’t smell); and fight the urge to touch it — and perhaps quickly recoil.

Hair for the 80-foot-by-13-foot banner was collected over several months last year from 42,000 haircuts of Dartmouth students, faculty, staff and local residents in Hanover. It was shipped to China, where workers in Gu’s Shanghai studio dyed and shaped the locks into paper-thin panels held together by a film of Elmer’s glue and tied together with twine. It and a second work, ”united nations: united colors,” displayed in another part of the library are the latest installations in Gu’s worldwide ”united nations” project, begun in 1993 and all made from human hair.

Hair Art Show Fascinates, Disgusts – Link.

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  • Chiengora Chic – Handspinning Dog Hair – Link.
  • Panda painted onto single hair – Link.
  • Micro-paintings on human hair – Link.

10 thoughts on “Hair art

  1. RobCruickshank says:

    The town of VÃ¥mhus in Sweden is well known for jewelery made from human hair- it’s actually quite beautiful. This like is in Swedish, but has good photos of some of the work:
    http://www.hig.se/~lbs/v_hus/harkull.html

  2. RobCruickshank says:

    I meant “this link” Sorry.

  3. Kate Aila says:

    Hair loss become a burning nut of this era owing
    to, there are countless number of people are under this depression. It’s
    noxious for those who are so engaging personalities of this world ‘Celebrities’
    because they are more sensitive to maintain their physical look especially for
    the beauty models.  Hair Transplant

  4. Kate Aila says:

    Hair loss become a burning nut of this era owing
    to, there are countless number of people are under this depression. It’s
    noxious for those who are so engaging personalities of this world ‘Celebrities’
    because they are more sensitive to maintain their physical look especially for
    the beauty models.  Hair Transplant

  5. Kate Aila says:

    Hair loss become a burning nut of this era owing
    to, there are countless number of people are under this depression. It’s
    noxious for those who are so engaging personalities of this world ‘Celebrities’
    because they are more sensitive to maintain their physical look especially for
    the beauty models.  Hair Transplant

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