Video: The bottles are not simple, the bottles are painted. Unusual portraits by Meghan Paterson
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Since childhood, I have always been interested in the question: how do craftsmen manage to stuff a whole ship into a small bottle with a narrow neck? This is not just art, it is art on the verge of focus, a kind of magic. It is beautiful and incomprehensible, which delights and fascinates. However, if there are countless boats in bottles, then there are even more empty bottles. This is what the artist Meghan Paterson uses as a canvas for her portraits.
Looking at these arts, one gets the impression that people are there, inside the vessel. Like genies, or prisoners imprisoned in a glass prison. In this form, Megann depicts both familiar people and strangers with interesting faces, or pop and movie stars.
Why bottles? Firstly, there will never be few such "canvases", secondly, it is always interesting to make something interesting out of something unnecessary, and thirdly, glass is as thin and fragile matter as inspiration itself. It is enough to inadvertently click on it with your finger once, as it immediately crumbles into myriads of tiny fragments.
Megann gives bottles with portraits to his "sitters", brings them as gifts to relatives and friends, and also conducts his own shows, where he exhibits not only bottle art, but also other works. You can get acquainted with the work of this British artist on her website.
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