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Saturday, September 6, 2008
Post 2
“Everyone has a sweater or a scarf knit by a grandmother or an aunt,” says Magda Sayeg. “There’s something about the amount of work that goes into a piece that shows care. Knitting is an act of love.”
She has a group of ten knitters, kniting to sweaters—not for people but for things you found on the streets like stop signs,expired parking meters, bicycle racks and telephone poles. This action is started in October 2005 with a very localized act and has exploded into an international guerilla public-art campaign. I think this art campaign is cute and a great idea to publicize the idea of showing care and love, not only to the people you know, but to the things around you (which you might probably neglect) as well. When the artist is asked for the reason to start kniting for objects, “Houston (the place where she lives) is a lot of steel and cement—not so pretty,” Sayeg explains. Now, not only Houston, even a stone at the Great Wall of China is found wearing a knitted jacket. Not only this is a creative way to publize "Love", it also consists of public involvement in this art campaign. You can now start picking up a pair of needles and a ball of wool, and start knitting for the metal pole in the mrt train to be part of this public art campaign! (Dont blame me if you got caught or something, i am not too sure if this is illegal though.) |