Luthien Thye
Forging Poetry
From the beginning of time, the pen and the brush were used as avenues for creative expressions. The brush, a universal symbol for Art, the Artist and their creative expressions. For me personally, writings, books, stories, have always inspired my imagination. The pen therefore, represents something scared in my dreams.
This piece began as a tribute to Creative Expression. But as the piece began to take shape, as the wires began to twirl and dance from my hands into its fanciful forms, as the ringing of my hammer began to sound like a rhythmic musical beat, I realized that this was more than just a tribute to creative expression, this WAS creative expression!
At the last phase of this piece, I wanted to choose a word to express it. There was no doubt in my mind that the word would be 'Poetry'. I had written Poetry today. But not in ink, I had written poetry in metal. At this moment, I realized the pen nib had so much symbolic relevance here. But what astonished me was the brush. The brush I had chosen was not merely any paint brush, it was a Chinese Calligraphy brush. This brush was used not only for painting pictures, it was also used to write poetry and prose. This was something that never crossed my mind when I chose to use this particular type of brush in this assemblage.
Isn't it amazing how the subconscious mind pieces things together?
This mixed media piece is an assemblage of copper, brass, steel, paper, resin, natural stones, fabric, fire, patina, paint, (one of my daughter's :) calligraphy brush, an old pen nib and a creative process that was spontaneous, organic, uninhibited and nothing short of dream-like.
*the choker wears 17 inches round the neckline (this was not made with any chain extensions, if you need a chain extension attached, please convo or leave me a note)
*Pendant is 7 inches from bail to end of pen nib
Forging Poetry
From the beginning of time, the pen and the brush were used as avenues for creative expressions. The brush, a universal symbol for Art, the Artist and their creative expressions. For me personally, writings, books, stories, have always inspired my imagination. The pen therefore, represents something scared in my dreams.
This piece began as a tribute to Creative Expression. But as the piece began to take shape, as the wires began to twirl and dance from my hands into its fanciful forms, as the ringing of my hammer began to sound like a rhythmic musical beat, I realized that this was more than just a tribute to creative expression, this WAS creative expression!
At the last phase of this piece, I wanted to choose a word to express it. There was no doubt in my mind that the word would be 'Poetry'. I had written Poetry today. But not in ink, I had written poetry in metal. At this moment, I realized the pen nib had so much symbolic relevance here. But what astonished me was the brush. The brush I had chosen was not merely any paint brush, it was a Chinese Calligraphy brush. This brush was used not only for painting pictures, it was also used to write poetry and prose. This was something that never crossed my mind when I chose to use this particular type of brush in this assemblage.
Isn't it amazing how the subconscious mind pieces things together?
This mixed media piece is an assemblage of copper, brass, steel, paper, resin, natural stones, fabric, fire, patina, paint, (one of my daughter's :) calligraphy brush, an old pen nib and a creative process that was spontaneous, organic, uninhibited and nothing short of dream-like.
*the choker wears 17 inches round the neckline (this was not made with any chain extensions, if you need a chain extension attached, please convo or leave me a note)
*Pendant is 7 inches from bail to end of pen nib