Wild, intricate sculptures — made out of my hair | Laetitia Ky

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🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Artist Laetitia Ky has a unique medium: using the hair on her head (and some wire), she creates incredible sculptures of objects, animals, people and more, promoting messages of bodily autonomy and self-acceptance. She shares how she came to create these surprisingly intricate forms and offers a joyful message of creative perseverance.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
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0:10.0	I'm Elise Hugh.
0:12.0	Hair.
0:13.0	It's pretty astonishing how much time we spend doing our hair,
0:16.0	thinking about our hair, or removing hair from our bodies.
0:19.0	In her 2023 talk from Ted Women,
0:21.0	Hair Sculptor Laticea Kai shares another way to think about
0:25.4	hair as an art form after the break.
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1:14.4	favorites. I was born and I grew up in Ivory Coast and like so many other
1:20.9	African kids I used to resent my blackness, including my hair.
1:25.0	I longed for street hair that could be easily managed and brushed.
1:30.0	After years of using air relaxer, I went back to natural hair at 16,
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