Artist Tonya Corkey creatively plays with dryer lint in her latest series of black and white portraits. The portraits are incredibly realistic and constructed entirely using fluffy lint balls.
Corkey cleverly makes use of the unwanted pelts of fabric most dryers collect over time by using it as the primary art material in reconstructing the portraits featured in the series 'See You in the Future.' The series features a collection of vintage images of people's faces replicated using different shades of dryer lint. Darker lint is used to replicate black shading and white lint is used to replicate lighter parts of the image. Some of Corkey's portraits are highly abstract as she hyper-infuses three faces into one. All of the portraits are 3D and super soft to the touch.
Grayscale Lint Portraits
Tonya Corkey Reconstructs Faces Using Dryer Lint
Trend Themes
1. Dryer Lint Art - An emerging trend of using dryer lint as the primary art material opens up opportunities for artists to create unique and textured pieces.
2. Abstract Portraiture - The trend of hyper-infusing multiple faces into one in portraits provides artists with a disruptive innovation opportunity to explore new and abstract ways of depicting individuals.
3. Tactile Art - Creating 3D and soft-to-the-touch portraits using materials like lint offers a disruptive innovation opportunity for artists to engage audiences in multisensory art experiences.
Industry Implications
1. Art - The art industry can explore and promote the use of dryer lint as a new and innovative material for creating unique and textured artwork.
2. Interior Design - Incorporating dryer lint portraits in interior design can provide a disruptive innovation opportunity for designers to add tactile and visually intriguing elements to spaces.
3. Textile Recycling - Expanding the use of dryer lint as an art material can drive innovation in the textile recycling industry by repurposing waste lint generated by dryers into creative and marketable products.