These Kumi Yamashita Portraits Are Made By Wrapping Thread Around Nails

moray mair | Art and design | June 13, 2012

Artist Kumi Yamashita made these portraits by wrapping a single unbroken black thread around a dense array of galvanized nails mounted on a painted white board. Light and dark are determined by the density of the wound thread.

In a nutshell this ongoing series, called ‘Constellation’, consists of three simple materials that when combined produce the portraits: a wooden panel, thousands of small galvanized nails and a single, unbroken, common sewing thread.

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