Feather to Chain Stitch DNA Column

2024
Size: 100 x 10 x 10 cm
Perspex tube, nylon polyester threads, glass beads

Exhibited in ‘Making as Learning’ 62 Group Exhibition at Salts Mills, Yorkshire

Every act of making leads to learning, with new knowledge gained from every creation. For eons the natural world has evolved countless forms of life, recorded the successes in DNA, and built that knowledge into the next generations. Celebrating this most extraordinary manifestation of making as learning is this stitched three-dimensional double helix- a DNA strand. The shape is created by interlinked stitches evolving as they spiral upwards. Starting tentatively and chaotically they develop through variations of shape and colour to become progressively more refined before finally splitting into two strands – creating new directions from which to make and learn.

Photos: Jack Armour