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[avad]

working on another weave of hammered nails in the basement...similar to this one I did a while ago...This one is called Density. I'm just learning how to post the images here so I'll probably post more pics from now on.

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wow

[cswallow.livejournal.com]

that looks really, really cool. what's the process that goes into making it? It looks like an absolutely amazing amount of work.

Re: wow

[avad.livejournal.com]

hey, thanks! I hammer thousands of aluminum nails into a thick plywood...hammering them in and bending them over in this case...to create complex weaves or coded language pieces. This started a while ago when I was looking for a way to create pieces with a Braille-like text...then the process itself was so meditative, felt so right, that it became a personal ritual and the 'text' became more and more abstracted...I like the idea of thoughts and language 'taking form', becoming surface, matter...
Check out my website if you'd like: www.picturetrail.com/darlenecharneco

[sebab.livejournal.com]

ditto on the question about how you created this?

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[avad.livejournal.com]

hello! These pieces are made by hammering thousands of aluminum nails in and over a thick plywood. I had been interested in creating tactile text and code...and created many pieces with a raised nail-formed text...and then over the years the process itself became a personal ritual (very meditative)and the pieces became more abstracted and condensed. A 'sentence' became one nail and information was layered...
Interested in micro to macro...check out some more pics if you'd like at www.picturetrail.com/darlenecharneco

[-sophera-.livejournal.com]

It looks great; I understand why you refer to it as 'a weave' as it appears almost like fabric.

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[avad.livejournal.com]

yes, I'm very fascinated by scale jumps, or the 'worlds within worlds' concept....Looking at satellite imagery of our cityscapes here on Earth..one could be seeing a dense fabric or a computer circuitboard...and then within ordinary matter at the microscopic level is such complexity of structure....!