what type of input did you get on this Kelly? really nice documentation. what is the concept of the circularity of it? The infinity of it? I heard conversation about the concept but it was hard to make out.
I should probably type up what conversation I tried to include. I didn’t have sound equipment, just what my camera could pick up (in a space where everything echoes, obviously). Everyone seemed to love it, from Cummer directors to working artists to students and parents.
So, basically the thing is this: All we have is the present moment–which for me was nonstop knitting, and for the piece is the act of unraveling. The future and the past are determined only by the way you see them from the present. So, past could be future, future could be past. With knitting, it’s a perfect analogy (or so I think). You can start at the ball, and knit, or start at the knitted piece and unravel. You can always pick up stitches and continue knitting. But either way, your future involves either “nonstop” knitting or “nonstop” unraveling. So yeah, it is pretty infinite.
There were some flaws I tried to leave out of the documentation. The yarn I used was pretty weak, and kept breaking, so other than the technicalities of fabrication, it’s probably the coolest thing my brain has ever come up with.
It cost more than I care to remember. Yarn is really expensive. Somewhere in the 1 or 2 hundreds, but closer to 1.
The color is more of an indigo, really. Dark, dark blue bordering on purple. The original yarn was a blackish color with flecks of grey, blue, white, and red–which reminded me of the midnight sky (black, with red and blue-tinted galaxies and stars and planets). We get our modern scientific concepts of the age of the universe through the state of the observable universe, so I thought that yarn was perfect. It’s the yarn I used in the beginning of this piece, but upon realizing that it was discontinued, I did this weird gradient thing into the blue yarn.
But it was discontinued in July 2007. I thought it was the other yarn I used to knit a house with that had been discontinued, and didn’t think to check. But it was the Time yarn. So I had to go with the closest color, didn’t want black, blah blah.
The pile of yarn is in a box in a closet because I didn’t want anyone vandalizing it or stealing it. The majority of the piece is still hanging (with a bench in front of it to discourage any more unraveling–breakage issues). Since the yarn I used broke so much, I’ll probably just make a bunch of hats and scarves out of it and give it to homeless people or something. If I want to do this installation again, I’ll find a stronger material first.
- 21 February 2008 at 1:25 am
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what type of input did you get on this Kelly? really nice documentation. what is the concept of the circularity of it? The infinity of it? I heard conversation about the concept but it was hard to make out.
I should probably type up what conversation I tried to include. I didn’t have sound equipment, just what my camera could pick up (in a space where everything echoes, obviously). Everyone seemed to love it, from Cummer directors to working artists to students and parents.
So, basically the thing is this: All we have is the present moment–which for me was nonstop knitting, and for the piece is the act of unraveling. The future and the past are determined only by the way you see them from the present. So, past could be future, future could be past. With knitting, it’s a perfect analogy (or so I think). You can start at the ball, and knit, or start at the knitted piece and unravel. You can always pick up stitches and continue knitting. But either way, your future involves either “nonstop” knitting or “nonstop” unraveling. So yeah, it is pretty infinite.
There were some flaws I tried to leave out of the documentation. The yarn I used was pretty weak, and kept breaking, so other than the technicalities of fabrication, it’s probably the coolest thing my brain has ever come up with.
i like it. for some reason I wondered about the color choice for the piece? purple right?
what has become of all the material afterwards? how much did it cost to make if you don’t mind me asking? in materials?
It cost more than I care to remember. Yarn is really expensive. Somewhere in the 1 or 2 hundreds, but closer to 1.
The color is more of an indigo, really. Dark, dark blue bordering on purple. The original yarn was a blackish color with flecks of grey, blue, white, and red–which reminded me of the midnight sky (black, with red and blue-tinted galaxies and stars and planets). We get our modern scientific concepts of the age of the universe through the state of the observable universe, so I thought that yarn was perfect. It’s the yarn I used in the beginning of this piece, but upon realizing that it was discontinued, I did this weird gradient thing into the blue yarn.
But it was discontinued in July 2007. I thought it was the other yarn I used to knit a house with that had been discontinued, and didn’t think to check. But it was the Time yarn. So I had to go with the closest color, didn’t want black, blah blah.
The pile of yarn is in a box in a closet because I didn’t want anyone vandalizing it or stealing it. The majority of the piece is still hanging (with a bench in front of it to discourage any more unraveling–breakage issues). Since the yarn I used broke so much, I’ll probably just make a bunch of hats and scarves out of it and give it to homeless people or something. If I want to do this installation again, I’ll find a stronger material first.
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