Celia Pym

“I think it’s really important in the digital age to make a connection with materials and your body,” Celia voiced, “I worry about a loss of that with our screen-based life. How do you know nature? How do you know the feeling of something?” Celia’s process-led work relies on tangibility, questioning what is human and what is real beyond the physicality of an object.

“IT’S EASIER TO TALK THROUGH AN OBJECT.”

“The result of this artist’s work is a wearable piece that paradoxically comes from apparently useless waste. Her work illustrates a process that goes from destruction to reconstruction. It speaks of recycling and recuperating while it also has to do with taking care of the other. It is the creation of a beautiful piece out of nothing. A piece that could almost look like tattoos on a body.”

http://1granary.com/schools/royal-college-of-art/celia-pym/


I am interested in Celia Pym's work because she takes plain objects such as old jumpers or old socks and stitches into them adding character to them. This relflects the idea that I have come across that people use red socks or colourful socks to show off their different personalities. 

http://celiapym.com/

http://celiapym.com/

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