August 24, 2005

Patricia Waller "describes modern perversions and demons" through her woolen crochet work. "Wool is often classified as inferior in terms of art and art history. It is not a material of which major works of art are made. We women artists who work with it, reflect our status in art, culture, and society, from this material and method that one can call genuinely feminine." [Second link is FLASH] We all need a few carrot-impaled rabbits now and then! Mid-way through the flash gallery, there is a monkey riding a ) canoe.
  • =D Modern perversions through crochet. My ex-girlfriend taught my friends and I to crochet about 10 years ago. She was a master, deftly turning out garrish scarves and warm wooly hats in a few hours. There was an explosion of crochet in our circle, and there were some serious atrocities created, but none were as beautiful and atrocious as these fine, fine works. These are incredible. I am in awe of her patience. Maybe I can call her up(the ex) and get her to help me figure this style out...
  • Art* that panders to that wee bit of the sadistic all of us. Hey! I LIKES me the monkey in the bananananana canoe. *Very well done.
  • ooh, thanks for posting this, sugarmilktea!
  • Oh, my wife needs to see this. Maybe she can do something like this for our nieces.
  • I have a new heroine. *gets back to crocheting a rather crooked scarf*
  • I have a new heroin. /collapse
  • oooh! I want that twoheaded dragon thingy!!
  • Hmm, crocheted drug paraphernalia...if I only knew more than one stitch.
  • ))))) Canoeing Monkey!
  • My wife has just started crocheting. She isn't quite at this level. Just a few fleshy lumps, one incomplete splatter of blood and an impaled mammal of unknown genus.
  • Wow.
  • This is great. In its juxtaposition of cute-and-cuddly and blood-and-guts, it reminds me of Gloomy Bear.
  • Thanks for that link TDM!
  • MonkeyFilter: Just a few fleshy lumps, one incomplete splatter of blood and an impaled mammal of unknown genus. hee hee