staceythinx:

Twisted wire sculpture by Ruth Asawa

Asawa on her work:

I started in 1962 when a friend of ours brought a desert plant from Death Valley and said, ‘Here’s something for you to draw.’ I tried to draw it, but it was such a tangle that I had to construct it in wire in order to draw it. And then I got the idea that I could use it as a way to work in wire. I began to see all the possibilities: opening up the center and then making it flat on the wall, and putting it on a stand.

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10:14 am  •  11 September 2012  •  242 notes