Anchorage, Alaska born Kate Carr is an amazing sculptor who is all about her materials, which oftentimes is textiles, fabric, felt and other materials I love.
Felt Coils, above is cut felt sewn together onto a plywood backing. It looks to me like rings of a tree, which I’ve seen people wet felt before in a tube and then cut – I wonder if this is a similar process or something drier and easier to manipulate.
Coil, made of starched muslin in a frame seems more constrained, which I like the look of given the irregular pattern of the inside.
Open Spool – I have no idea how this was made – in her explanation she says that it’s an industrial thread spool and glue – your guess is as good as mine.
Most recently Kate was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, which is in the same town as our New Hampshire house. I like how in the above piece she incorporates found objects (the box) with muslin, which to me has a sort of historic / old-timey feel.
Rocks…this is from her objects series. It’s expanded rocks – expanded by slices of wood. I like in Kate’s About section where she says, “A line is the simplest mark. It is a part of a whole. In my work I use simple geometric forms because they allow my materials to be to be seen and encountered clearly, unencumbered by their shape.” I can see that statement in the Rocks.
This piece, Pink Hammer, was done years ago – in 2003, out of crochet thread and a hammer. I really like it though I’d love to more about how she came to create it as it’s so different than her other works.
Tags: 3D, sculpture, textile, weaving