Stretched Elastic

“When stretched, elasticised cloth contains energy. Only the warp is elastic, but - with an image drawn on it and stretched between two batons - distortions due to that energy are revealed. In this case, because I myself had imparted the energy, it was a matter of taste. To eliminate this limitation, I used fibreglass rods to provide the tension needed for stretching the elastic. I couldn’t have imagined the forms that would result.”

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