TATE COLLECTIVE

To celebrate Women's History Month, Tate asked 5 young women artists to create artworks inspired by works in Tate's collection. Leia Wasike invited me to visually execute her concept via image taking/making and art direction. Read Leia's thoughts towards her concept � “My piece is inspired by Onoda’s Work62-W. Onoda found inspiration in the machine-made, identically duplicated objects of Japan’s post-World War II Industrialisation. This description, made me question the concept of braiding. It is a literal meaningless repetition that by the end, creates a completely different result to its process of creation. Braids are an entity of movement and beauty and have their own history and influence. I decided however to add wire during the braiding process to halt movement and freedom in the likeness of Onoda’s fascination with thinking mechanically. The circular hair structure was of course emulating the dots, whereas the loose braids, crowning David’s head, take the shape of the lined sections Onoda painted around the dots. �want my work also to be seen as though it were a painting. ” � : Minoru Onoda, Work62-W, 1962