What’s 14 feet long by 4 feet tall?
A portrait of the Last Supper made from dryer lint.
True story.
Laura Bell, from Roscommon, Michigan, “spent seven months saving the lint from her own dryer, but the problem was it was usually the same color.”
Her solution?
She ended up buying towels in the colors that she wanted to use in the portrait and washed and dried them separately to get lint with just the right tint.
She estimates that she spent 700-800 hours just doing laundry to get the lint she needed for The Last Supper.
She says it took another 200 hours to create the portrait. All the lint in her portrait is as it came out of the dryer and has not been colored or dyed.
Amazing!
This is the kind of creative intensity I need:
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Thanks Albert Einstein!
[via Ripley]
Becky says
That’s pretty cool how she made the Last Supper picture with lint.
Eric Dye says
Certainly not the easiest piece of artwork to recreate with dryer lint, eh!