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king_sheet

Installation of a King Size Sheet playing with the idea

of the Santa Sindone di Torino.

The work, embroidery on king size sheet shows the distribution of a typical male’s body hair.


king size sheet (260*240cm portrait)
red, orange and fuchsia wool fringing

 

Photograph 01:

The directionality of hair in embryo of Macacus cynomolgus.

Elements from plate 4, volume 5 of Menschenaffen, 1911, edited by Emil Selenka.

Source: http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/40/papapetros.php

 

Photograph 02:

Example distribution of body hair in females and males.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_hair

 

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