Plastic Fantastic

I've just come back from The Cloud Nylon exhibition by Norah Fok.  The beautiful designs you can see here are handmade out of nylon filaments that are knitted, knotted or woven into shape, and then heated in water to keep the shape they've been manipulated into. Having tried to sew with nylon thread before amd thinking about how unruly it is, I can't begin to imagine how difficult it must be.
The top picture "Splash" represents the appearance of droplets of water falling and the crown is the shape they make as they hit the surface and bounce back; and if you're wondering how the balls are made; the nylon is knitted around a golf ball , heated in water, and then the golf ball removed. The colour in the Physalis below is added after they are made, the colour is built up in layers to avoid the frustration of hours of work being ruined by a colour thats incorrect.

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I love the idea of something so beautiful and delicate coming from a recycled product, particularly one that we all dislike.   Jackie