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This Auckland artist embroiders using her own hair. She went to art school in ChCH and it deals with issues she faced surrounding her cultural background, creating a new place for herself in NZ. I love the detail in her work, and that she stitches things many times to get them absolutely perfect. The skeleton she made stitched from her hair has her exact proportions. I think using a material like hair you have to have some element of self portraiture in it if it is your own. At first glance you can't tell that her work is made using human hair, i like that my work is not like this because i want to keep that feeling of abjection towards the hair as being of the body, cast off and rejected.
“I started using hair because it is an expression of language: the way you wear your hair says something about you; it’s filled with your DNA."-Liyen Chong SOURCE
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