Tactile Typography by Dominique Falla

Australia-based artist Dominique Falla created these large scale typographic piece using thousands of pins and hundreds of meters of string.



"I drew the type by hand, scanned it, redrew it in Illustrator and then made the physical from pin and string. Hundreds and hundreds of meters of string!"



“I get bored very easily, and I also think if there’s a concept behind what the piece is saying, the way it says it should also reinforce the concept. My thought process usually goes "what am I trying to say?” and then once I devise a quote or statement, I try and work out if anything in the statement suggests a medium or technique."



"I’ve had many false starts, pieces that didn’t quite work, pieces that needed fixing and so on. Sometimes they’re so bad that I’m forced to change my concept mid-project. I read somewhere it’s called ‘confusion endurance’. You don’t always know what you’re doing but you need to cultivate the energy to just keep going anyway."



"The gaffer tape typography on the concrete floor of the 'Goodbye Helvetica’ installation was definitely the most painful. I couldn’t walk properly for a couple of days."



"The 4.5m x 2.4m Goodbye Helvetica string and pin piece completed three metres up in the air on a scissor-lift was the scariest and I recently made a portrait of a man’s face out of 8100 squares of paper and that was the longest. I don’t think I will be doing another large-scale paper mosaic any time soon. I have a lot of patience for tedium, much more than anyone I know, but boy did that test it."













Check her website: www.dominiquefalla.com/

Source: 8faces

String Mirrors by Hong Sungchul

South Korean artist Hong Sungchul creates three-dimensional string sculptures for his series entitled 'String Mirrors' using hundreds of dangling strands of elastic strings with images printed on them.

Thread Paintings by Stephanie K Clark

Salt Lake City-based artist Stephanie K Clark creates embroidered art pieces of houses, log cabins and cars that look like paintings.



"I considers myself a painter and I paint with thread. The process of transforming string into art struck me as something visually stimulating with complex simplicity."



"The embroidery floss is my palette and the needle is my paintbrush. I create a method of embroidering the threads in an arrangement that would initially create value, color, depth and as I lay the colors down they instantly blend themselves. This process has had its way with me, leading me from hobby to art."



"My work is an ode and influenced by the worlds of tapestry and my love for craft. Using thread instead of oils has allowed me to bring new purpose to my painting process. My work blurs the lines between fine art and craft."



"I like to think I can reclaim the word “craft” which contains the idea of an unusual frame of knowledge and skill passed on from generation to generation. The use of craft such as embroidery fits my concept of domesticity, therefore my process and material becomes involved in the concept of my work."



“When I embroider on canvas it feels like oils; it flows, it blends, and it’s rich.”



“When I embroider on loose shear or silk, it’s like a watercolor; its delicate, the thread goes where it wants to go, and it moves with the fabric.”















Check her website: http://stephaniekellyclark.wix.com/stephaniekclark

Stellar Caves by Julien Salaud

French artist Julien Salaud created a luminescent ceiling installation titled 'Grotte Stellaire' (Stellar Cave) by nailing interweaving strands of white cotton thread to the ceiling, woven into the shapes of stunning creatures, and illuminate them with an ultraviolet lighting system.







































Check her website: http://julien-salaud.info/