My friend and I went to the Memorial Art Gallery today to take photos for an upcoming Photo Critique on mininalism. We found a few objects that may work well as our contributions, but the most interesting piece of art we saw was this one by Devorah Sperber called "After Grant Wood (American Gothic). The piece was created with 4,596 spools of thread.
From this angle it's easy to see the images, but when you are in the gallery looking at it straight on, it's not as clear. As soon as I looked through my viewfinder, the images popped out at me. The gallery provided viewers with a glass ball on a handle. When you look through, this is what you see.
Here are three close-up views:
The first thing that amazed me was the creative thought behind the art work. How does someone come up with an idea for something like this? Then, what must it have taken to execute it? Amazing.
