Cloud Frock
June 14, 2009
Cloud Frock
2009
wool yarn and repurposed cloud drawing (pencil, colored pencil, and white ink on paper)
8 1/2 inches h x 7 inches w
not for sale
I’ve never known what to do with unsold, failed, unfinished, or never-shown artworks. Pieces I like I hang around my home or I give to friends. And every now and then I have a studio sale. But as I age, more and more “failed” artworks are taking up space in closets and portfolios. Pieces I never finished, for one reason or another. Pieces I deemed not quite good enough to include in a show. Pieces that I did show, but don’t like anymore.
My current solution for these kinds of artworks is to tear them up and repurpose. For this knitted drawing, Cloud Frock, I tore and cut up an old drawing of a cloud. I think it dates from 2002 and was one of the drawings I decided not to include in a solo show that year at the Center for the Arts in Northampton.
I pierced the drawing fragments with an awl, then worked them into the knitted fabric as if they were beads.
June 14, 2009 at 7:10 PM
Hmmmm…and the lesson I’m learning from this post is that I need to just start doing instead of always being so afraid of failing. Thanks for the reminder!
June 14, 2009 at 8:57 PM
Oh this is one of my favorite of the knit art pieces yet. I really like the contrast in textures, and between the rounded shape of the knitting and the crisper rectangles of the paper.
June 16, 2009 at 12:59 PM
Oh, my. I had no idea.
I Love it.