Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Process


Mona Hatoum

Hair Necklace, 1995

Human hair, wood and leather bust, and Plexiglas vitrine.  

Bust: 12 x 8 1/2 x 7 in. (30.5 x 21.6 x 17.8 cm); Vitrine: 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 12 1/2 in. (40 x 40 x 31.8 cm).

The artist collected her own hair for six years, taking it from brushes and rolling the dead strands into balls.  She stored the balls in shoeboxes under her bed until she used them for this piece and two others.

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