Creator / Gabriel Dawe

Gabriel Dawe is a Mexican-born artist living in Dallas, Texas whose work is based on investigations of the visible spectrum of light. He has gained renown for his large-scale Plexus series of installations of sewing thread, though he also creates works on paper as well as other media. His work has been exhibited in the US, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, and the UK.

Gabriel Dawe's works can be found on his website here.

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This creator provides examples of the following tropes:

• Everything's Better with Rainbows: He is most famous for his many, many Plexus instillations; thread based installations that simulates a colorful light-spectrum.
• Mummy Wrap: "End of Childhood" are a toy dinosaur and a toy crocodile wrapped in blue thread.
• Real Men Wear Pink: His fascination with textiles and colors are born both out of a fascination for needlework and his family's refusal to let him explore it in his youth due to Textile Work Is Feminine.
• Spikes of Doom:
  • "Intolerance" is a pair of vintage army pants lined from top to bottom with sewing pins that stick inward.
  • "Don't Ask Don't Tell no. 1" are a pair of Air force desert boots lined with pins on the inside.

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