There are many forms of painting. Even now, artists are still racking their brains to break through the limitations of existing options and find new materials and techniques to complete a work. Greek artist Petros Vrellis tried to "paint" a portrait using traditional weaving techniques. In a specially customized oversized embroidery frame, he repeatedly wrapped black thread until it developed, completing a series of hazy and retro special portraits!
The diameter of the embroidery frame is about 28 inches (71cm), and 200 metal hooks are nailed to the outer frame. The black thread is fixed back and forth through the embroidery frame, repeated about 3,000 to 4,000 times. The overlapping trajectories finally appear as portraits.
Petros Vrellis said that a long time ago, humans developed exquisite weaving skills to present various totems in the interlaced crisscross threads, and what he wanted to try was to use this concept as a Basics, plus some inertial thinking patterns of the human brain, to create different portrait paintings.
Just like mosaics, when you get close to these woven paintings, you just feel that the lines are extremely intricate and complicated, and it is difficult to see why. You have to look at them from a distance to see the full picture of the work. Calculating through computer software, and then slowly outlining it manually may feel monotonous at one time, but Petros Vrellis has a different understanding from the long weaving process. "The "thread" is like a life path, and I am..." Through these actions, we can recreate the appearance of this person."
Petros Vrellis is inspired by the works of Renaissance painter El Greco. Each portrait requires a length of 1 to 2 kilometers of wire, and Petros Vrellis gradually outlines it within this distance. Showing the beauty of the Renaissance.
