As I work more and more on my yurt project I’ve been researching additional installation artists who utilize pieces of nature in their pieces. I spent yesterday at the Museum of Art and Design with Charlotte looking at parts of their permanent collection they’re currently displaying, which is where I came across Gyongy Laky.
Her work with twigs is so open and lacelike — makes sense given that Gyongy’s origins are in textiles.
Her installations show that you can make something beautiful out of ordinary things like a wood stack.
Gyongy is originally from Hungary but has been in Northern California for quite some time — she actually went to UC-Berkeley too, which is right by where my brother used to do stage design.
Her smaller works, lots of bowls, are twigs held together, largely, by electrical wire it appears. The one below is the one that I saw in person — it was large, and awesome!
Some of her work reminds me of Andy Goldsworthy and Patrick Dougherty too for sure.
I love how she blends colors here and I think these might be toothpicks! The idea of “weaving” with short items and seeing how things stay together might be something interesting to try at some point down the road if I evolve out of oversized items!
The above is way more my style these days — that rope is almost as big around as the cording I felted for the yurt!
Tags: nature, sculpture, weaving
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