Video: Princess Locks: Human Hair Sculptures by Agustina Woodgate
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
30-year-old craftswoman Agustina Woodgate knows how to build castles from an unusual material - human hair. The long-term project "I Want to Be a Princess" includes two serious buildings, which only need to be surrounded by a moat of water. However, the formidable castles turn out to be not stone strongholds, but soft and silky sculptures.
Agustina Woodgate was born in Buenos Aires, where she graduated from the National Institute of the Arts 7 years ago. After graduation, the young specialist got the chance to go to the United States for a year. And where a year, there are two. In short, Agustina Woodgate still lives in Miami, being a prominent face in the urban art scene.
As a child, Agustina Woodgate intended to become a scientist in order to explore the world and make useful inventions. We can say that part of her dream has come true. After all, now the author of sculptures and installations works with many materials, studying their properties, and invents new art objects - why not artistic inventions?
And more about childhood. Already at a young age, Agustina Woodgate fell in love with sculpting from strange materials. So, once the girl began to collect candies, lollipops and other sweets and make unusual trees, cars, houses out of them - a whole candy country turned out. Over time, the craftswoman's hobby for sweets passed, and other materials appeared on the agenda: first, nails, and then human hair.
The first human hair castle - "Tower" - was built from 3 thousand unusual bricks. Despite such impressive figures, the dimensions of the unique “building” are small: its height is only 1.3 meters, and its length and width are about half a meter.
The decoration of the Rapunzel tower is interesting: the window opening is lined with blond bricks, and the cornice above the window is made of gray hair. However, most of the building material is gray-brown-crimson, so the castle looks like a stone one.
The second hair structure of Agustina Woodgate resembles not brickwork, but a castle built by children in a sandbox: the same traces of buckets, and the color is wet and sandy. The name of the art object is appropriate - "Sandcastle". The dimensions of the sculpture are 0.5 x 1 x 1 meter.
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