The Ed.
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Artist, Sophie Cullinan, is creating a unique 'multiple-participant-project' and needs your help to do it. She will be touring the project throughout the UK and, put simply, needs 10,000 decorated acrylic nails to do it.
The project called 'FFF' (pronounced 'fur') is inspired by the ancient works of Nkisi Nkondi who featured reflective surfaces referecing the ability to see into the "Other World". Nkondi would create an animal 'nail fetish' empowered by the insertion of nails (think the hammer type of nail rather than the finger type of nail) to hunt down wrongdoers, avenge crimes and cause or cure sickness.
Cullinan has reinterpreted Nkondi's idea and combined it with our modern day obsession with all things nail and nail art. Cullinan will insert all the decorated acrylic nails into a large, life-size silver painted, double-headed dog sculpture...creating a modern-day version of Nkondi's pieces.
In order to fund it, Cullinan has to find £3,000 in the next 24 days and is using popular crowd-funding site, Kickstarter, to do it. In fact, the VIDEO she has created on the Kickstarter site describes the project far better than I could.
You can follow Sophie in her journey on Twitter (@FFF_21C).
Until then...geek on!
The Ed.
The project called 'FFF' (pronounced 'fur') is inspired by the ancient works of Nkisi Nkondi who featured reflective surfaces referecing the ability to see into the "Other World". Nkondi would create an animal 'nail fetish' empowered by the insertion of nails (think the hammer type of nail rather than the finger type of nail) to hunt down wrongdoers, avenge crimes and cause or cure sickness.
Cullinan has reinterpreted Nkondi's idea and combined it with our modern day obsession with all things nail and nail art. Cullinan will insert all the decorated acrylic nails into a large, life-size silver painted, double-headed dog sculpture...creating a modern-day version of Nkondi's pieces.
In order to fund it, Cullinan has to find £3,000 in the next 24 days and is using popular crowd-funding site, Kickstarter, to do it. In fact, the VIDEO she has created on the Kickstarter site describes the project far better than I could.
You can follow Sophie in her journey on Twitter (@FFF_21C).
Until then...geek on!
The Ed.
