The Daily Mail’s ‘perfect storm’.
Thanks Jack Jones




Sculptor Jenine Shereos creates these delicate, skeletal leaves made from stitched and knotted human hair. Sez she:
In this series, the intricacies of a leaf’s veining are recreated by wrapping, stitching, and knotting together strands of human hair. Inspired by the delicate and detailed venation of a leaf, I began stitching individual strands of hair by hand into a water- soluble backing material. At each point where one strand of hair intersected another, I stitched a tiny knot, so that when the backing was dissolved, the entire piece was able to hold its form. Creating this work was a very meditative process for me, as I found myself lost in the detail of the small, organic microcosms that began taking shape.
Leg Hair Font developed by Tama Art University student Mayuko Kanazawa for a project at Japan’s Tama Art University that challenged her to create a typeface without using a computer. It was recently used in an Adidas commercial.
During her time as a high school art teacher in New Jersey, artist So Yoon Lym was very taken with the intricate cornrow hairdos of her students.
I loved the many beautiful hair styles of both my male and female students… I would sometimes run after students in the hallway and request that they stop by room 108 briefly to allow me to take a picture of their hair and braid patterns.I was always pleasantly surprised and pleased that everyone always stopped by and allowed me to document their hair style. All my students if they had an interesting or unusual hair and braid pattern always allowed me to take pictures as well. I knew I wanted to use these photographs as reference material for a future art project but wasn’t sure what I would do with them.
So she started painting them.