Wool sculpture

In her salient text, In The Wake: On Blackness and Being, scholar Christina Sharpe delves into the multiple definitions of “wake,” which span from “the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead, (to) coming to consciousness.” “In the wake,” Sharpe writes, “the past that is not past reappears, always, to rupture the present.”Continue reading "Figurative Wool Sculptures by Nastassja Swift Explore the Memories and Narratives of Blackness"

Paolo Puck is a self-taught British artist creating whimsical needle-felted wool artworks that explore topics relating to beauty and ugliness. He uses his sculpture as a way to explore the point at which one becomes the other.

Many years ago I discovered the art of needle felting. When you needle felt, you stab wool fiber repeatedly with a very sharp, barbed needle. The barbs of the needle felt the wool into shapes and thus you can sculpt it!

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Hi-Fructose Magazine on Instagram: "Paolo Puck shares his technique, while putting final touches on his latest needle, felted wool sculpture, “The Oracle” which is over 5 1/2 feet tall. “Puck’s work plays with topics relating to beauty and ugliness, and he uses his sculpture as a way to explore the point at which one becomes the other.” @fluff.faun #SoftSculpture #NeedleFeltedWool #paolopuck"

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Light shade. wool felt