Sunday, March 4, 2012
Putting The Threads Together...
After reading up on yarn bombing, I spent the rest of this week trying to get my fingers to understand how to knit. Now that I've figured out the basics I'm excited to try out some ideas I have in the next couple of weeks.... I did have the idea though that I am much more adapt at sewing than I have decided I am at knitting and possibly thinking of trying out some "quilt bombs" lol...
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I can knit if someone casts on for me! I forget how to do that step...though I'm sure I could find an online tutorial.
ReplyDeleteYou may be interested in Ju-Pong Lin's Neighbor to Neighbor project that blended story and community engagement. There's a short clip on her blog:
http://juponglin.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-06-01T14:39:00-04:00
Also, you might want to check out Webster's Woods in Port Angeles, WA. The sculpture garden in the woods is home to many textile installations (and natural materials, too). http://www.pafac.org/exhibitions/art-outside.html
Deanna Pindell (Port Hadlock) has created a front yard garden for the hermit’s hut by clearing away an invasive ivy groundcover and planting a dozen salal seedlings, a small reservoir of native growth enclosed by a straw-stuffed jute tubing used for highway erosion control. Her Squiggle sends 200 feet of this wattle snaking through the woods like a giant anaconda.
With black wool yarn, Pindell has stitched into the mesh snatches of text about salal in eight Northwestern aboriginal languages, including this anonymous poem.
Salal grows in the darker places,
Like love, and, like love,
Takes hold in the shadows
That sentiment might apply to the way art works on us, as well — emerging from the shadows of our awareness in a sudden flash of recognition and great empathy.