Hair Art

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Artist Builds Castles Using Bricks Made of Human Hair

Different artists have already been using human hair to manufacture different things such as sunglasses, product packaging and more.

Agustina Woodgate is another artist that decided to make bricks out of human hair and use those bricks to build big castles.

Her series entitled "I Wanted To Be A Princess" involves the use of clumps of hair to make 3,000 bricks. These bricks were stacked to form two medieval castle sculptures.

She debuted at Miami's Spinello Gallery, with a creation called Tower, which represents a castle that is about 4.5-feet tall.



Tower is constructed from tightly bound hair bricks and at first glance it looks more like clay. The walls are of brown and gray colors and windows are made of blonde hair. The castle's top is made of white hair.

Another structure created by Woodgate is entitled Sandcastle. The artist used less structured hair to give the castle the look as it's a decaying structure, resembling a real sandcastle.



It would be interesting to note that Woodgate became popular for the use of a wide range of objects to create different works of art. Previously she used human hair as well, making smaller sculptures like slippers, brushes and structured balls

Source: http://www.infoniac.com/offbeat-news...uman-hair.html

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Fashion Glasses Made from Human Hair



A duet of graduate students from London's Royal College of Art have come up with an original way of using human hair - they decided to used it to create a collection of fashion glasses.

Alexander Groves and Azuka Murakami (known as Studio Swine) entitled their invention simply "Hair Glasses".

They used human hair in combination with bioresin, which plays the role of a biding agent, to make frames for their glasses. Thus the invention is 100 percent biodegradable. Besides, no hazardous substances are released during production.

Studio Swine's Hair Glasses were officially presented at the 2011 Royal College of Art graduate exhibition that finished up last July 3, 2011.



Source: http://www.infoniac.com/science/late...uman-hair.html