draculasdaughter: Flesh rots to bone, taking our faces and figures with it. But clip a lock of hair,
draculasdaughter: Flesh rots to bone, taking our faces and figures with it. But clip a lock of hair, and it will keep its color for decades, even centuries. Thus, art crafted from hair — a 19th-century tradition (…) — remains frozen in time. (…) Although hair art is frequently associated with memento moris, or objects of mourning, it was just as often used to make family trees or tokens of friendship. (…) “A lot of hair would be braided and then placed in a book and a poem would be written underneath it, or something describing their relationship with a person,” Snedden Yates said. (…) Every meticulous knot in a strand or delicate petal of a flower formed with hair and wire reflects an intimate connection between the artist and the absent subject that acted as both portrait and talisman of a relationship.Allison Meier, The Curious Victorian Tradition of Making Art from Human Hair, 2018. -- source link