Bobbin Lace

The drawings in this portfolio mirror and analyze bobbin-lace-doilies and the path of their threads. These are magnified and manipulated with the computer. The result of this work is then transferred to canvas by hand-drawing the projection onto canvas again. The basis of bobbin lace is a paper-model, which helps lead the path of the thread within the lace-work. It also shows the shape and path of the thread within the doilie and gives information to the type of lace-structure, that is used for filling the spaces. In bobbin-lace-work, not the paper-modell is important, but the lace in itself. Usually it is discarded. My drawings discard the lace-doilies and give the paper-model a new usage as a form of art. If you look at the structures formed by the threads, you realize, that they resemble the structures found in nature. The associations with the pupil, penis or other living structures become evident, although all I did was change the dimension and fracture the threads path- not more than that.