As the artwork is tall it needs structure and I have explored how grass is formed to provide both rigidity and flexibility. It is interesting to note that this grass, along with many has a “foxtail”. A foxtail is a spikelet or cluster of grass that serves to disperse its seeds as a unit. Thus the foxtail is a type of “diaspore” or plant dispersal unit and means to “scatter about”. This is held together as thin threads twisted around each other to create strength in unity. I have created grooves in the steel that seen from different angles shows you to see a grass forming.out it simply means “to scatter about”.
Sketches and studies of grass and structure of the strands.
Diaspore is a word you often hear to describe different communities too. I really like this notion of strands taking different thin threads and twisting them together to unify and make them stronger. When people come together they are always stronger.
Final design of “Strands”.