Woman recreates ‘Last Supper’ with laundry lint
January 15th, 2011 - 12:40 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Jan 14 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A woman in the US used seven months to reproduce Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’ masterpiece using lint that she collected using her tumble drier.
The woman, Laura Bell, indicated that she spent about 800 hours to collect the lint and further 200 hours in coming up with the final work. The project is part of a contest called, “ArtPrize 2010”.
The artwork which is 14-foot long and 4-foot tall was purchased at an undisclosed fee. Laura used several towels with different colours to achieve the piece. She explained further that she was inspired by other lint artwork to come up with her own work.
After the project, Laura revealed that several people got interested in the project. She indicated that the artwork had different meaning to different people.
She said that, “For some people, it’s a very spiritual experience. Others are simply amazed at what someone could do with basic laundry lint.”
The vice president of Exhibits and Archives at Ripley, Edward Meyer told reporters that the art piece was the biggest artwork of lint that the art center has seen. Ripley was the institute that bought the piece and Meyer indicated that it was because of the uniqueness of the craft that they decided to add it to their collection.
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