Renwick Gallery Is Overtaken With 60 Miles Of Rainbow Hand Weaved by Gabriel Dawe
Contemporary artist Gabriel Dawe is delighting visitors at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery with his masterpiece “Plexus A1” - rainbows woven with 60 miles of thread that create a magical visual experience. It’s part of a major exhibition titled “Wonder” where several artists transform their location specific installations into a larger than life installation.
The Mexican artist combines the architecture of the historical museum and fashions a hand-threaded spectrum of rainbow yarn individually from floor to ceiling; replicating an enchanting experience for spectators as they walk through the corridors and hallways to be confronted by monumental rainbows sweeping from the ceiling to the floor. Dawe has meticulously worked with 60 miles of thread for 10 days, composed of 15 colors of the spectrum, and single handedly blanketed the Renwick’s 19-foot tall ceilings with thousands of strands of polyester string. Mistaken for fleeting rays of light, the piece is an iridescent exhibition. Each layer is carefully constructed, to assure that the hues shift with light in a specific gradient mimicking a true rainbow.
Gabriel Dawe’s Plexus A1 is a resurrection of his memories from his childhood in Mexico city.
You are no longer mine to love. My mind has decided that loving you would only do harm to the both of us and if we wanted any chance at happiness I had to let you go. And I know you found it comforting to know that if he didn’t love you, at least I still did and you could just sit in the safety of my chest until you felt okay with leaving again. So I’m sorry but there are no more vacancies left for you to fit in. My heart loves another. Or at least that’s what my mind says. But it’s better this way.
“I still love you, but you can’t stay” remnant-thoughts (via remnant-thoughts)
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