Checks and Balances
Dimensions:
Xcm
Medium:
Paper, tea bags
Artist:
De Lamby Wulff
Finalist – Paper on Skin Tasmania 2022
Artist Statement:
The many faces represent the facades and multiple images we present to the world as we strive to keep our lives in check. The multitude of rolls we balance on a daily basis excitedly explode, unable to be contained.
Delicate yet strong, the train floats on the faintest breeze. The underbodice constructed purely from tea bags and joined only at the sides ensures maximum comfort that is structurally strong enough to lace securely.
This wearable garment represents every variation of tea bag manipulation I had experimented with over the preceding 6 years.
Over 2000 reclaimed tea bags, systematically dried, untied, emptied and flattened.
Each individual mini canvas then dyed, sewn, gathered, chopped, woven, joined and/or hand rolled.
