'Last Supper' recreated in lint by Michigan woman...

[Bigmack]

A northern Michigan woman has put her own spin on Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" by making a replica out of laundry lint.

Laura Bell, of Roscommon, collected lint from her dryer and fashioned it into a 14-foot-long, 4-foot-tall reproduction of the Italian Renaissance painter's masterpiece.

Bell says she needed about 800 hours to do enough laundry to get the lint, and 200 hours to re-create the mural. She bought towels of the colors she wanted and laundered them separately to get the right shades of lint.
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...can't help but wonder if the story would have been picked up by the AP if she'd made a lint mural of the Flying Spaghetti Monster...

[rfranklin]

1. And why is this woman is not institutionalized?

Sounds like a religious fanatic.

[Zephie]

3. Now now, art is not sane

I personally wouldn't call it wonderful art myself either, however I can see what she was going for and even though it's not to my taste I must admit that the hours she put into it shows dedication. So at least she's doing something to try to make the world a more colorful place, even if it is in a dingbatty way.

[blondeatlast]

4. Thanks. My thought was that's pretty cool folk art; not to my taste either but

a pretty cool idea and certainly shows dedication.

[judy]

16. I agree with you

This woman is an artist, patient and dedicated, just like Da Vinci himself.

[Orrex]

2. I hear that Dan Brown has already stolen the rights to tell her story.

[Ikonoklast]

10. "The Clothes Dryer Code."

"A gripping tale of the search for the robes worn by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper, upon which a cup of wine was accidentally spilled and were then sent out to Greenburg's Miracle Dry Cleaners, whose motto is 'We Bring Your Garments Back To Life In Three Days Or It's FREE!' and unfortunately were never claimed and lost to history.

Until now."

[gkhouston]

17. DUzy! n/t

[Lint Head]

5. Did someone mention lint?

Am i being paranoid?

[Lint Head]

6. Is this the Holy Grail?

[frazzled]

7. I actually love this kind of kitsch

and I applaud the "folk artist" who assembled that much laundry lint.

It's not original, but heck, it keeps you busy and gives you (somewhat less than) fifteen minutes of fame.

I also like "crop art," made entirely of seeds, a particularly Minnesota tradition:

[Historic NY]

8. Oh my , now my life is complete.

[lame54]

9. that would take a lot of belly-buttons

[boston bean]

11. I quickly read this as Last Supper recreated in Flint Michigan, by woman. nt

[d_r]

12. lllloooooooooonnnnnnngggggg winters

[Tesha]

13. As long as Mary Magdalene is in the right shades of blue...

(Time to watch The DaVinci Code again?)

Tesha

[pinboy3niner]

14. The only question is...

How long before CTyankee slips this into a Friday Challenge? :evilgrin:

[Maru Kitteh]

15. When an artist of great renown paints a world-beloved masterpiece of FSM then perhaps it

will be noteworthy when a lady in Michigan re-creates it in lint.


I see this as a humorous and quirky bit of folk-art.

[lunatica]

18. That's one way to deal with the boredom of doing laundry

Actually, I think it's a good way to deal.

[handmade34]

19. oh, I love this!!!

why didn't I do this??

[Bluenorthwest]

20. She could give up lint for Lent.

That's got to be nice!

[snooper2]

21. Somebody has WAY to much time on their hands

:)

Now, if she had used cat whiskers that would be something. Of course you would have to network quite a bit to collect that many. I find one from my cat every 4-6 months :P