negative thoughts

Thought Behind the thought:

Few days ago I was reading ‘The Princess and the Pea’ story to my little niece who was visiting us. The story revolves around a girl who comes into a palace claiming to be a true princess and is put to test by the prince’s mother who makes her sleep on twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds with a pea hidden under the mattress in the bottom. True princess that she is, she is in discomfort the whole night and gets up bruised and tired. Well we too test our patience everyday by taking things like work, troubles and negative thoughts to bed. No wonder we are constantly battered and bruised by these thorns and nails that we sleep on. These dark thoughts get into our minds and prevent us from working productively. Negativity brings only pain to life, stifling even the minutest pleasures out of it.

About the Art: 

Kumi Yamashita is a Japanese artist who works in New York and does amazing work using nails and thread. Remember how we were given these little projects in school to wind thread around a bunch of nails and come up with patterns. Kumi Yamashita takes that exercise to another level. She makes these outstanding portraits with nails and thread. A lot of consideration needs to be given to the density and spacing of the nails. The entire shading of the portraits is controlled by the number of times thread is wound around the nails. Obviously her art needs careful planning, execution, vision and most importantly infinite patience.