Imagine What We Can Create Together
By Artist Bill Fink
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Bill Fink, President of The SEEDS Foundation, is seeking university collaboration both intellectually and financially to make this International Hair Art Museum a reality.
I researched and developed a way to make pictures entirely of hair, which I see as only one part of what the museum can do with hair. Hair Photography could be made from the subject’s own hair with photographers submitting compelling photo work from around the world so we can turn hair into pictures made of hair.
Sculptures can also be made entirely of hair, along with functional hair art, from kites that fly, to lasso’s, to bicycle wheels, to eyeglass frames made of hair with lenses. Or statements like Minyon Tefillin where the hair from 10 people can be turned into a tefillin so the prayers will spiritually come from the hair of 10 Jewish people when only one person is praying. Hair can make political, social, medical, and religious statements in the most potent way when literally few to no other materials can.
Hair is one of the world’s most important materials when expressing human emotion, storytelling, and cultural identity across every civilization. Hair is an incredible material that carries our deepest experiences, while preserving something truly universal and meaningful.
There are literally NO hair museums in the world that exhibit functional hair art, photographs made entirely of hair, or art made of hair. This museum would invite fiber artists, hair artists, sculptors, and artists of all kinds to showcase exceptional art, and exhibit the beauty of hair as art, in this one-of-a-kind international hair art museum.
I welcome serious discussion!
Why The International Hair Art Museum Matters
Hair stands as humanity’s most profound artistic medium because it is literally made of people, and it plays a very real part of social identity and sexual attraction. It also plays an important part of the business world, and the political views we hold. Each strand of hair also carries the biological DNA and the storytelling about its owner. When we work with hair as an artistic material, we are weaving together the very essence of human existence.
Just as flowers and animals use color and beauty to attract with other members of their species, we use our hair to attract other members of our social groups. Just as the Beatles and other music groups revolutionized music through their evolving songs and hair styles, this material has been overlooked by the artworld, and The International Hair Art Museum recognizes that hair can be transformed into beautiful and functional art.
Each morning, as we comb and style our hair, we make deliberate choices about how the world will perceive us. Hair becomes our daily declaration of conformity or rebellion, or visible statement of who we are or who we aspire to become. Society reads these signals instantly – the same person with unkempt hair versus carefully styled locks receives entirely different treatment, revealing our collective biases and assumptions, and yet no other species cuts off its own hair. Not only does hair hold our identity and DNA, unlike any other human material, hair can retain its color from when it was harvested in our life for thousands of years, and for this reason, hair should not be considered a waste product, but instead it should be considered an art product.
Human hair has a spectrum of colors, and yet as we age, all the colors turn to gray. Also, as individuals, we are each playing a role that we want to play, hope to play or must play in society, and hair helps us act out our role. Hair also plays a huge part of how men and women and people across all sexual orientations interact with each other. Different hair textures and style reflect intimacy that reflects sexually. Hair carries the full spectrum of human experience within its strands – political statements and personal grief, social rebellion and cultural conformity. Every color change or hair style we apply in our life is both personal transformation and artistic expression that makes us all hair artists working on our most important canvas – ourselves. For this reason, the International Hair Art Museum will play a very important role in society.
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The International Hair Art Museum is a project of The SEEDS Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit.
Artist, Bill Fink is the President of the SEEDS Foundation a 501c3 non-profit
Please check out some of the pictures made “ENTIRELY “of hair
If you think you have an interesting story to tell with your hair, or with someone you know, we would love to hear from you!
If you’re a hair stylist, student, or artist, and you are able to take an interesting picture of a new or interesting hair style and save some of the hair clippings, we might be able to make a hair picture of the image that will be seen by others on-our website, your website, hair and beauty conventions, magazines, and at our eventual art gallery with the help and interest of others. All artists are welcome to participate in making hair art as a medium whether they are sculptors and artists who can make hair art using Embroidering, Cross-stitching, Weaving, Spinning, Knitting, Crocheting and all other fiber arts techniques.
We want to make pictures out of the subject(s) hair if the picture falls into one of the following categories:
INNOVATIVE HAIR STYLES
BEAUTIFUL HAIR
FUNNY
HISTORICAL
CELEBRITY
HUMAN INTEREST
If you unable to get the hair from the subject for us to make the hair picture with, we could make the hair picture with the Stylists hair, or any donor’s hair clippings, but then we can only note the picture is made of hair instead of mentioning the subjects name.
HAIR IS NOW CREATING A NEW FORM OF PHOTOGRAPHY !!!!!!!!!!
The SEEDS Foundation Engagement Offer for Fiber Arts Students
My name is Bill Fink, and I am the President of The SEEDS Foundation a 501c3 nonprofit.
The SEEDS Foundation and The International Hair Art Museum are looking for students who show innovation….so instead of students using their skills for conventional fiber arts, we want students to create art by using real human hair.
We’re working to create The International Hair Art Museum that will be the first of its kind to exhibit both functional and creative art made of human hair. To begin with we are looking to commission several artists to make working pieces of art from human hair like a lasso, kite, scissors, eyeglass frames with real lenses, or hair beads for a necklace, a fishing rod, a functional whistle made of hair, a musical instrument made of hair, shoes made of hair, human hair violin strings and a violin bow using human hair, and we can see about having someone who plays the violin try it out and see how it sounds! Or making a yo yo entirely out of hair. Or weaving a hair chess board to make the squares with black and blonde hair. A camera made of hair with a real lens on it. Weaving a small basket made of hair instead of plant reeds and using black with alternating hair colors, or making suspenders out of hair, or making a doll named Hairy out of hair which could become the International Hair Art Museums mascot. Or making a sheet of paper out of hair embossed with braille that says if you turn your screwiness up 1000 percent and have fun being screwy…you will have a happier more meaningful life. How about a telescope or Kaleidoscope made of hair using a real lens. A hair sculpture of a nose with hair hanging out of the nose. A respirator mask made of hair with two real filters screwed onto the respirator mask made of hair. A bellows made of hair instead of leather. Or a “WHAT IF ART.” …where this thinking drives innovation starting with a story, and then making the WHAT IF ART as you the artist conceptualize it… like a super strange looking hair device that could give us human compassion that maybe looks like woven tubing by attaching it to our head and that device is made of hair. Or making another device that looks totally bizarre, but gives us a superpower that allows us to read minds or allows us to become invisible? I have old tv tubes that could be attached to these superpower hair devices. The weirder these hair devices look the better!
Take any idea you may have in mind and think about what item you would be interested in making out of human hair or horse hair to make an un-thinkable piece of art.
Once we work out the project details, The SEEDS Foundation will supply the hair, lenses, tubes, or difficult items you wish to add to the hair art for your student project. Our budget range is 500 to 800 dollars per piece.
Thinking crazy is exactly where the good stuff happens!
Looking forward to hearing from students who want to have some fun with hair!
Sincerely, Bill Fink
Conceptual Hair Art
Conceptual Hair Art
“The HARP OF HOPE”
I am looking to have the strings crafted by professional art students who can make the strings using hair from former cancer survivior patients. The City Of Hope could include stories of HOPE from each patient who would be individually represented by each string on the harp.
Pictures Made Entirely of Hair
THESE PICTURES BELOW ARE MADE ENTIRELY OF REAL HAIR. These pictures are not mock-ups or conceptuals!
