Portrait of the 750 pairs of socks (12 photos)

I've seen a lot of material to create paintings ... But socks ...

The artist on the background of his work - a portrait of Chinese director Zhang Yimou.


Malaysian artist and Hong few years ago, moved to Shanghai, and in their spare time promotes contemporary Chinese culture, creating unusual portraits of one or another direction.


The girl is famous for the fact that it - non-standard artist who paints are not colors, and objects, it is not designed for this purpose. For example, traces of coffee cups, stones, salt and sugar, milk and ketchup. Everything that comes their way, the artist can turn into a work of art than is justly proud.


At the time she graduated from the University of Melbourne, the specialty designer-architect. Today she lives in Shanghai and works in architectural company, continuing, however, to engage in at your leisure with its unusual creativity that makes people wonder.


Her latest work is a large-scale monochrome portrait made of socks, which are mounted on bamboo poles.


Why socks, bamboo? Hong Yi explained it simply ...


To create a new work inspired her things that hang in Shanghai lanes and dried on bamboo rungs.


This combination of the bustling metropolis with a primitive method of drying clothes struck the girl.




And now the answer to the question, where do Zhang Yimou? Yes, despite the fact that the action scenes of his films the director is using bamboo sticks as weapons for martial arts.




So the artist compared these images and decided to make a similar portrait.