‘As an artist, Hollie writes about social issues, prejudice, hatred and the skewed norms of a dysfunctional society.
The technique with steel pins and string felt right for this particular album and the personal, direct and unpolished message it brings.
Using icons was a deliberate choice, the prejudice she talks about is often a simplification of complex issues and graphic icons are themselves, also a simplified or even cliché shape that is used to depict something often much more complex. The icons tell their story in a very basic and direct fashion.
‘Mathematics’ was created by hand frame-for-frame in my studio using just a pile of foam boards, steel pins (about 8,000 of them) and 200+ metres of wool.
The clip was created using a stop-motion technique and was built entirely by hand. The 1,900 stills used to make the film were incredibly labour-intensive to make and the whole process took roughly 200 hours to complete, including making the original artwork, building the set, weaving the wool, photographing the frames and editing the video.
A minial amount of retouching was done to stay true to the original idea which was to keep it as simple, real and as handcrafted as possible.’
Martin Pyper – me studio
November 2016
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