Art Made From Human Hair and Stuffed Animals

We present Agustinu Woodgate, a young artist whose portfolio is brimming with various ways of innovative creative expression. The author expresses her talent and contemplations through sculptures, installations, performances, photography and engaged projects in public places. Today we’re profiling two of her projects, selected for their ingenuity, uniqueness, and as well as the unusual material they’re made from. The Argentine-American artist makes her sculptures from human hair and dismembered teddy bears.

If you’re one of those people who can’t stand to look at and are repulsed by a handful of hair then perhaps you’d better stop reading this article. She called her series of works „I wanted to be a Princess“.

Along with hairy towers, Agustina Woodgate also weaves colorful rugs, whose basic material, of course, isn’t any old material from which rugs are mostly made of. Without any sadistic aspirations, the young Argentine makes these colorful rugs from dismembered teddy bears and other stuffed animals. The recycled puppets (as she calls them) are worn-out toys ready for “retirement” which the artist arranges into a unique “patchwork”, giving seemingly ordinary rugs an additional meaning through keepsakes and memories interwoven into every used puppet.

*Tower, 2008.

*Sand castle, 2008.

Uz dlakave kule Agustina Woodgate radi i šarene lucidne tepihe, čiji osnovni sastav, naravno, nije neki uobičajen materijal od kojih se tepisi inače rade. Bez ikakvih sadističkih aspiracija, mlada Argentinka raznobojne tepihe izrađuje od rastrganih plišanih medvjedića i drugih mekanih igračaka. Reciklirane lutke (kako ih ona naziva) su ostarjele igračke spremne za „mirovinu“ koje umjetnica slaže u neobični „patchwork“, dajući naizgled običnim tepisima dodatno značenje kroz uspomene i sjećanja utkana u svaku od iskorištenih lutaka.

*Royal, 2010.

*Galaxy, 2010.

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