Custom Newspaper yarn art - music

Description

Each newspaper yarn piece is individually crafted and signed by the artist.
6.5 inches square (internal measurement of frame)

Available as a custom piece - a musical note with a word tag of your choice - your favourite lyrics for example.

The piece pictured is not available and is currently on auction at my facebook page and is called "Even the savage beast". The colours in newspaper strips were specially selected and handspun into yarn before creating this piece. I felt newspaper was right for this piece because every song and piece of music tells us stories - of the composer, the listener, the person who played it to us. The stories in the papers are spun by the people involved, the journalists, the readers, by my altering it into art and by you, if you choose to purchase this piece and make it part of your story. Music also has the power to transport us back in time, as newspaper take us back to a particular date....to earlier parts of our life story when we heard it. These could be bad times (the red) or good times (the blue). The words have been searched for and selected from news stories to give them a new life as part of something beautiful....turning bad news into good.

Inspiration

Striving to turn bad news into good news is what all of us do all around the world on a daily basis. Newspapers often tend to report very complex stories in black and white and indeed when we think of a newspaper black and white are the colours that spring to mind but tear it up and spin it into yarn and colours and complexity can be found.

I am inspired by those that pick apart news stories and try to disentangle the facts from opinion - there are too many to mention but Ben Goldacre and NHS Choices "Behind the Headlines" do a good job for health and medicine stories.

Shipping & delivery

Shipping destination Cost Additional items
United Kingdom £2.75 £0.00
All other countries £5.99 £0.00