Angela Bulloch
Disenchanted Forest x 1001 2005
Courtesy Helga de Alvear,
Private Collection, Madrid
Photo © Carsten Eisfeld |
Make a Den from String
April 2006, Tate Britain
Angela Bulloch is an artist who has filled a room with strange noises, lights and lots and lots of string. For her work called Dis-enchanted Forest, she hangs and dangles long pieces of string from the ceiling to the floor. Try making your own string den or string ‘installation’ at home. You can use all different sorts of string: cotton, wool, parcel string. Pick a room or corner of your home which has lots of places and things which you can tie the string onto. Use furniture or door handles. Make sure everything you tie your string to won’t wobble or move. Connect one thing to the next using string, going around corners, running in all directions. Your string den could last for a day or a week, depending on where it is. It will make you move through the space in a new way. You might have to crawl, duck, wriggle, or bend round lots of corners once you have tied your string all over the place.
Top tips!
- Use old wool, string, cotton, old rags, clothes - anything in fact that you can tie up and take down again.
- Use lots of different colours and textures if you like.
- You might want to use one big roll of string and take it for a long walk all around the room.
- Use your string to make new spaces in the room. You might like to tie off a small section to work in or make long ropes that stretch right across the length of the room.
- Make string features to hang from your frame. Make pom-poms, linking chains or use pegs to hang and dangle cloth.
- See how much string you can use to fill your space.
- Turn off the lights at the end of the day and shine a torch through your string jungle. You will see just what a strange new world you have made.
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