Artist Amy Corson has developed a novel medium over the past decade: portraiture with cassette tape.
All of it started sooner or later when she picked up a cassette of Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks and pulled out a number of the tape. It reminded her of Dylan’s personal darkish curly locks and she or he set to work creating his picture with the tape. Roughly 10 years later, she’s made portraits of numerous well-known musicians: Elton John, Dolly Parton, George Harrison, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen and Jerry Garcia, to call a couple of.
“I’ve hoarder tendencies so I nonetheless have a bunch of my previous cassette tapes from once I was youthful,” Corson tells UCR. “I at all times preserve an eye fixed out for tapes in vintage or document shops although. If I see one which I believe I’d wish to finally make right into a portrait, I am going to get it.”
You’ll be able to view a small assortment of her work, which she usually posts to her Instagram web page, beneath.
Corson has had a artistic streak in her since childhood. “Rising up, I made issues out of no matter I may discover round the home or in nature,” she says. “Making origami paper flowers and gluing them onto branches that I’d then put right into a vase. Issues like that. I like the thought of making one thing lovely out of on a regular basis objects so making these cassette portraits simply form of occurred naturally.”
She says that relying on the dimensions and quantity of element, a portrait can take anyplace from one to 4 weeks to finish: “It is a very time consuming and tedious course of. You must have lots of endurance.”
Cassette Canvases: Musical Portraits Made With Tape
Artist Amy Corson began with Dylan a decade in the past and has made numerous since.
