Video: Teddy Bear Tapestries and Carpets by Agustina Woodgate
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In Europe, the art form used to create carpets and paintings from the skins of animals killed in hunting was very common. A contemporary Argentine artist Agustina Woodgate continues this ancient tradition. True, her work is done from teddy bears and other toys.
Last year, on the Kulturologia. Ru website, we talked about the All you can get project from Virgin magazine, in which, among other things, a dress made of teddy bears was presented. Augustine Woodgate, an artist from Buenos Aires, uses this unusual source of material in her works. But she does not make clothes out of toys, but elements of the home interior.
In the modern world, it is more and more difficult to imagine an art form that is based on the creation of something from the skins and fur of killed animals. Animal advocates negate such treatment of animals and their remains. Therefore, you have to look for some alternative materials to replace the disappearing ones.
Augustine Woodgate, for example, believes that toy animals are no worse, if not better, than real animals. Therefore, she uses their fur to create her works. Moreover, one teddy bear (or one other toy animal) is traditionally used for one carpet or tapestry by this artist.
Woodgate dismembers the Teddy bear's "skin" into small pieces and sews them into carpets and tapestries. Moreover, in these works there may even be a pattern if the toy in its artificial shell had several shades.
Augustine Woodgate also makes such works of art to order. People, it turns out, are not averse to parting with their toy past, turning it into a skillful present.
“It all starts with a gradual cooling of the senses to the once beloved objects, such as children's toys, for example. At some point, people understand that they do not feel any emotions for them. Unless, somewhere in the depths of their memory, they have tender memories of the good old Teddy bear. If you turn it into a carpet, then these memories will always be before your eyes, living, patterned, having found a new form for themselves."
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