Mobiles & Hanging Structures


These mobiles, a collaboration with my husband, Tom Russell, are made of wire and paper, string and cardboard, as well as bits of rusted metal detritus such as springs, nails, and screws. Some of the parts are dipped in abaca pulp which allows the rust to bleed through the sinewy skin that forms. Some are dyed with tea, others are hand sewn. All are hung by threads and wire and carefully balanced, so they move unimpeded, stirred by air currents in the surrounding space.