Video: Kathleen Dustin handbags: art can be functional
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Many people see the disadvantages of art objects in that they are extremely non-functional. A beautiful installation, but you can't put it at home. A beautiful dress, but where to go if it's made of paper? Artist Kathleen Dustin took this problem seriously and, taking as a basis such a useful thing as a handbag, made it a real work of art!
“People often ask me:“Why handbags? Why don't you make sculptures or figurines? " The reason is that figurines or sculptures are just standing in someone's collection and covered with dust. It is not even expected that someone will touch them. And my bags are functional, which means that they will be held in their hands, examined, touched … The life of any person becomes better when he is not only surrounded by beautiful things, but can also use them. This is what I want from my work."
At the beginning of her creative career, Kathleen created handbags in the form of female images. Later, she switched to elements of the natural world, such as buds, mosses, branches, stones, leaves, grass. The artist hopes that in this way she will be able to draw attention to the ordinary things that surround us: someone will want to pick it up from the ground and examine the fallen seed, someone will pay attention to the grass on which he is used to walking … In general, the words "pay attention" - key in Kathleen's work. She tirelessly repeats them in all interviews and sincerely hopes that with her work she will help arouse people's interest in the world around.
Kathleen Dustin is from western Michigan, where she dreamed of becoming a jazz pianist while watching the sunsets. However, in 1979 she received her Master's degree in Ceramics and Sculpture from the National University of Arizona.
Kathleen makes her handbags from polymer clay, known for its durability. The artist has been working with this material since the 1980s and since then has developed many of her own techniques for working with this substance, because polymer clay has been used in art not so long ago, and Kathleen had to master a lot on her own. Then the artist decorates the handbags with paintings, appliqués or carvings.
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