Verna Vogel: Tension: No Tension

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Verna Vogel, "Tension - No Tension, (detail)," 2014

jute string, push pins, 30” x 72"

In the Upstairs Gallery:

Tension: No Tension is inspired in part by a childhood memory of string art kits popular in the 1970’s: you followed the instructions and ended up with a recognizable image, for example an owl. Unlike those kits, this site-specific work utilizes a non-linear process to explore delicately balanced tensions with string, and ends up with two- and three- dimensional drawings which span the gallery walls. There are no recognisable owls…although sometimes there is a floating feeling of wings unfolding.