Tuesday, April 27, 2010

collaborative art ...


you know it's going to be a good day when you have to move your laptop because the glare from the sun is making your screen unreadable ... 

today in my fiber world, i'm going to share with you the collaborative piece of art we did on the weekend ...

we, being myself and two fellow students, diane and suzanne ...

 our assignment was to "create a collaborative project in a group of 3 to 7 people, carry out this project and document the outcome through images, evidence and reflection" ... okay so we actually exceeded expectation on the size of the group but how can more people in a collaborative piece be wrong? ...

my fiber friend suzanne came up with the idea of using some concrete blocks at our city hall as "posts" in a giant weaving/crochet project ...

so we gathered all our cream and white yarns in the hopes that, in the end, we'd have a piece that looked like a giant doillie ...



here comes suzanne's husband with the buckets of cream yarn ...

we thought we'd set up the framework of the piece and then invite others to join in the fun ...




here's diane leaping across hazardous yarns ...

before we knew it we had many many children and adults participating ...



we had brandon and sam, maddie and christer, jake and sneha, elizabeth, spencer and olivia, simon and kiera, just to name a few ...

we had young children, adults, brothers and sisters, and mulitple generations from the same family ...


the plaza became a very lively place with comments like:

"what a great way to make friends" (two little girls who were under our web);
 "I hope this stays up all summer";
"what a great idea";
"thank you for doing this";
 "it was so unique to be part of an art creation--thank you for letting us be part of it";
 "that was fun";
 and, my personal favorite
"watching you through the window of the library, we thought you were crazy but it turned out awesome".

...

here's the end result, not so much a doillie as an intricate web ...



which got more interesting as we folded it over and over again ...



until all that remained was ...




happy knitting ... and let's hope this is not the last collaborative assignment we have 'cause it was way too much fun ...




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