Green Pebble Magazine




Louise
Richardson and Andrew Campbell
By Ruby Ormerod
Winter 2009/2010 issue

Photo:
With permission of the artist
The piece is mesmerising.
A dress hangs suspended from a pole and is, for all intents and purposes,
made of fur. Step up and study it more closely, and with some difficulty
the optical illusion shifts to reveal that the fur is not fur at all, but
thousands of nails painstakingly pushed through a length of muslin to settle
into a pattern of copper swirls and waves.
How can 14,000 garden shed variety nails look so richly tactile?
And why, once the illusion has been revealed, does the artwork continue
to be alluring and, yes, even beautiful?...
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