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SLOW ART

Elma Ferchland

KUNST AUS WOLLE. Elma Ferchland makes Art out of dyed sheep’s wool fibres, silk and plant fibres. The focus of her work is on nature and culture (portraits, symbolic representations)

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Elma Ferchland ( DE )

PIMO Portrait of a male blackbird image share artwork

PIMO Portrait of a male blackbird

SLOW ART MADE OUT OF WOOL.
Pimo was a male blackbird. He knew how to put his stamp on everyone around him. So everyone around the garden knew who the king was. He had many children and grew very old. I erected some monuments to him in wool.
 
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Without title

This is a miniature portrait made out of woolen fibres and silk fibres (KUNST AUS WOLLE).
A portrait, but also a hommage to the joy of summer leaning against the apple tree.
(24cm x24 cm is not including the green background of the photography).
 
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Quiet Life

SLOW ART MADE OUT OF WOOL.
One day in February, I found a snowdrop on a railway embankment, deeply hidden among ivy and last year's grass. A quiet life.
Here too, only wool fibers, silk fibers and plant fibers are used (KUNST AUS WOLLE).
 
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Papageno

SLOW ART. Papageno swings his net as if he wants to capture not only all the Papagenas of this world but also all the colors of newly sprouting life…
Fibres of wool, silk and plants are used.
The edge does not belong to picture. (2022/23)
 
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Small Picture With Crowned Pigeon

SLOW ART. This dove species with its fiery red eyes, the blue companion of the feminine…
Here too, only fibres of dyed sheep‘s wool are used and applied with an ultra-fine needle to industrial felt.
KUNST AUS WOLLE.
 
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Pollen (Blütenstaub)

SLOW ART made out of woolen and silk fibres. Raised fingers resemble the stamens of some flowers, I think. The gesture appears both ostentatious and concealing…
 
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Blue Friend

SLOW ART. Dyed sheep’s wool and silk fibres applied on industrial felt (Kunst aus Wolle). 2016.
The blue bird, the bearer of a deep secret, the protector of the one resting on a summer night…
 
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CARMINIUS EMBERHEAD

SLOW ART made out of wool. The rooster is a symbol of life. He lovingly watches over his flock and embodies strength, family spirit, and the rising of the sun. This portrait is surrounded by a three-dimensional frame made of white sheep's wool.
 
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Music

SLOW ART made out of wool.
Music, barely begun, already over, like the musician with the blue flute, while the woman is still listening and the immortal cupbearer on his frieze is handing the bowl... And a huge flower has grown out of the ground.
 
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Garden in Ice

SLOW ART made out of wool and silk and plant fibres (Kunst aus Wolle) (2019).The wonder of the human face— the only one of its kind in the world. The unwavering will to flourish in the face of ice and snow.
 
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Three Birds (Drei Vögelein)

SLOW ART (wool, silk, plant fibers) 3 is the magic number: 3 goldfinches, 3 of summer flowers (chicory, wild carrot, and burnet), 3 types of grass, 3 butterflies, 3 beetles, as well as the Earth, the sun, and the moon. The meadow cosmos…
 
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