Artist Lee Baker used 10 thousand metres (or 32,808 feet) of colourful yarn to create his fascinating work ‘Refractive Monolith’. Commissioned by The Future Tense for its SPECTRA I exhibition, the piece utilizes the corner of the gallery to showcase vibrant acrylic strands pulling across a grey gradient pyramid and stylized graffiti-like clouds. A three dimensional reaction to his paintings, Baker explains the installation as the quest to use “vivid colour and extreme perspectives to ‘build’ fantastical meta-cities against a stormy backdrop of ashen clouds and pending darkness”. I love the up-close images of piles of yarn and how the strings intertwine to create different palettes from different perspectives. I imagine “Refractive Monolith” is one of those works of art that you see something new in upon each and every viewing. I would love to see Lee take this idea to the street and bring his grey illustration/bright yarn combination to urban art installation…

(thank you tabara!)
(images via lee baker and ma cup of t)