The other day, I posted about a gallery of artistic use of clothespins on Weirdomatic, and an eerily similar gallery posted on another site a few weeks later. An artist named Gerry Steca has been working in clothespins for years; here are a couple of his pieces. For more examples, visit his site.
A monumental piece
On a more modest scale
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cymast
/ October 24, 2009I am fond of the wall art in the second pic. I remember the installations I enjoyed most at MPAG were the ones that had supplemental descriptors.
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/ October 24, 2009Steca has a lot of great stuff on his site, I recommend you go there when you have a little time to stroll around.
cymast
/ October 24, 2009I like Stecca’s clothespin sculptures from a distance. They look like organic tunnels and pods, as do some of his other sculptures.
acilius
/ October 25, 2009That’s my reaction too. The design of the clothespin is so anti-organic that when you look at one you can almost forget most of the material used to be part of a tree. It’s interesting how he puts the organic back into clothespins.