Thursday, June 22, 2006

Knitting Therapy

- knitting as art therapy -

deconstruct/reconstructmy first project is called deconstruct/reconstruct - it is the process of unraveling a knit piece and giving it a new life by creating something new with the yarn. for example, I took this old sweater that I have had for at least ten years and created this long i-cord to use as the base for a new necklace. I'm going to create a bunch of silver spheres to randomly attach to the cord - similar to work I've been doing here, but mixing materials: fibers and metals. I'll post the finished piece here as soon as it is completed. (yes, that's me in the picture from 1996 wearing the sweater)

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