动物和昆虫与虚构的栖息地结合在一起的雕塑

南佛罗里达州的艺术家艾米·格罗斯创作了手工刺绣和串珠纤维雕塑，其中包含了丰富多彩的自然世界。蜜蜂点缀着由树叶、蜂窝和苔藓组成的作品的表面，而其他作品则包含了由鸟类、蘑菇和其他真菌组成的万花筒阵列。尽管这些雕塑反映了一种自然的共生关系，但它们在色彩和构成上都是虚构的。她的作品中没有一个元素是被发现的物品，而是每一件都是手工制作的，都是用手工商店的纱线、珠子、金属丝和纸张等物品制作的。我在工作中从不使用任何有生命的东西，我只与人造材料合作。他们模仿生物，但不会枯萎或死亡。格罗斯参加了于2018年11月15日在北卡罗来纳州阿什维尔动量画廊举办的名为《小作品，大影响》的集体展览。

South Florida-based artist Amy Gross creates hand-embroidered and beaded fiber sculptures that contain colorful nods to the natural world. Bees dot the surface of a work formed from leaves, honeycomb, and moss, while other works contain kaleidoscopic arrays of birds, mushrooms, and other fungi. Although the sculptures reflect a natural symbiosis, their structures are fictionalized in both their color and composition. None of the elements of her pieces are found objects, but rather each handmade from craft store supplies and objects like yarn, beads, wire, and paper.“Making objects is my way of turning thought into something solid and real, and in a way, slowing time,Gross tells Colossal. “I never use anything in my work that was ever alive, I collaborate solely with manufactured materials. They mimic living things but will not wither or die. It’s a very human desire to slow or control disintegration, to try to have a say in a volatile, uncontrollable world of change.”Gross is included in a group exhibition titled Small Works, Big Impact which opens on November 15, 2018 at Momentum Gallery in Asheville, North Carolina. You can see more of her nature-inspired assemblages on her website.