Ann Hamilton (Part 3 of 5, "Art:21")

Ann Hamilton - Not the typical artist most people think of. She does embroidery, sewing, knitting, and makes art with words. One of her philosophies I found attractive was the idea that cloth is made up of individual threads. The threads make up one big whole, but you can still see each tiny one, and without them, the cloth wouldn't exist. It's much like the world we live in. Shown below is Lineament, 1994. The objects are lines taken out of a book and spun together into a ball like thread. The purpose of this piece was to take two-dimensional objects, words on the page of a book, and turn it into an object with three dimensions, the ball of thread. It reminds me of how people would always say you can't touch words, you can only touch the ink and the paper, but it still seems like they are there. This project makes them all the more palpable.