Spanish Beard

Spanish Moss (Tillandsia usneoides) 

layered graphite drawing on mylar
36″ x 14″
2012


Spanish moss has long held a fascination for me; I often pull handfuls off branches to idly make cords with in the same way some people make daisy chains. Yet, it's not until Northerners visit and marvel at it hanging from the trees that I feel such pride in having it in the landscape. Those of us that live here trade facts about it.

"It's not really moss you know . . . it's an air plant."
"Closely related to pineapple from what I hear."
"Pretty sure it's not even from Spain . . ."

I object.

"Perhaps you are wrong about that. It's well known that when the Spaniards arrived after their long journey, a few of them fell into deep obsession with some of the pretty native women and began earnest pursuit. The women -being fast thinkers and entirely uninterested in the furry faced men following them- climbed up into the oaks and the Spaniards climbed up after them. Much to the dismay of the men, their beards became hopelessly tangled in the branches. As they struggled, the women climbed down and escaped, but the poor lovelorn explorers stayed high in the trees. They eventually passed away, but their beards remain and continue to grow and spread from tree to tree."

Everyone nods thoughtfully save for my young nieces who scowl, forever skeptics.


This work is part of the FLOR500 project. Read more here.

ambient comic with bubbles: part III

This is the final part. 

Erin Curry
unnamed comic book made within 24 working hours on translucent mylar with ink, graphite, whiteout tape, tape, and bubbles
14" x 11"
2012

 Two gifts were sent my way yesterday, first Abstract Comics featured this work and Tom Hart of SAW put together a little video about it which includes how the pages look when flipped though and some footage of how the bubbles make their mark. 

intro
part I
part II 

moving drawings

Captured awhile ago and briefly wondered if galleries and show would find receiving videos of barely moving drawings over-the-top. Maybe someday I'll make that move. 

Been working steadily, but haven't made the time to post here much.

If you are curious, I'm using Instagram to casually post things here and there. 
Find me at instagram.com/erincurry. Most recently I've been working on a white painting on white gampi and exploring more translucent drawings. 

Schlaufenhaufen

"loop pile"
a word gifted to me by my German friend, Kisa. Saur
to describe the pile of line at kiters' feet
and my favorite found drawings.

The ones below were collected at the Cervia International Kite Festival in April of 2010. 

 Anna Rubin's delicate monofilament

Ohye Makoto's Edo kiteline(synthetic braid)?
such surprising angularly
stored on a bamboo winder in a rotating figure eight.

Alessia Marrocu's rokoko battle line
postal twine
she explained it never gets cut (truth, it survived the battle just fine)
before lift off she'd pick it up, shake it and flip it before dropping it again to make it stay all in one mass, a loose tangle.

Kisa.'s dyneema line.