Fiona Long Art

Soft toy stuffing, pva, emulsion, hand spun wool, netting and nails on kitchen work top. This piece is all about texture! For a detail of it go to www.flickr.com/photos/fionalongart/262528935/in/photostream/ Part of my whiteways project. The first task was to take a white item of clothing and change the meaning of half of it in some way. I took a white fish net stocking which I think of as a youthful and sexy item of clothing. I sewed the bottom of it shut rendering it impossible to actually use. I used hand spun, natural wool turning the bottom of it into an old ladies’ frumpy stocking. The top of it is machine made and regular with man made fibre and the bottom contasts with this by being natural and irregular. I also took a pair of alluring white lacy knickers and attached sharp palstic spikes to them! They are my 21st Century chastity knickers. I like the contrast between the soft and alluring with the sharp and prohibitive. The glue gun left stands of glue which I kept and wrapped around the spikes as women sometimes say “it’s been so long, I’ve got cobwebs down there!” I then tried recreating the spikes on different materials with different media. I then developed these ideas until I did my somewhat conceptual heart rate monitor piece using sand representing the sands of time.