All Blog Posts Tagged 'pins' (4)

Since 2008, Brooklyn-based artist Alyson Shotz has been creating intriguing works which are composed of yarn wound around thousands of tiny pins. For Derek Eller Gallery in New York, she created Sine (above), a monumental wave that moved across two gallery walls. Though the lines themselves were meticulously created using yarn and pins, the shadows created the…

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“None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison

Using 8,000 colored and black map pins, designer and artist Dominique Falla adapted and then recreated one of Thomas Edison's…

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Ran Hwang is a Korean-born artist working in New York, who creates intricate and poetic installations. Hwang is best known for her wall sculptures that make use of common objects like buttons and crystals pinned directly onto the wall of the gallery, using each element like a pixel on a screen.



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While I won't be able to muster up enough courage to rock one of Handlespout's headbands, I know I can handle these hair pins! Made of silk taffeta and tulle, these pretty-as-can-be flowers are attached to a 2" bobby pin. They come in a set of… Continue