My process begins with a meditation. When it's time, I use needles and yarn to knit the streams of my thoughts and feelings. At points throughout, I form the knitted panels into spaces and shapes. The yarn retains its shape, because it has a stainless steel core, which is covered with silk. I document these spaces with my camera and produce an accompanying portfolio of 17" x 22" prints.
Caste commissioned this triptych of knitted sculptures to festoon patinated steel cylinder lamps designed by Ty Best. These sculptures and accompanying photographic studies were at Caste, run by Brad Rowley.
This series was influenced by a collaboration with a group of women artists, architects, designers, historians, knitters and my mom. We call ourselves Knit One Then What. The group was founded by Robin Richman, Annie Pedret, Julie Flohr and me. Pedret became obsessed with knitting in the summer of 2008, and I invited her to knit an installation to be shown in my gallery, In Process. It would be the closing show. Rather than knit it all herself, we inducted the labor and creativity of 20 women who flowed in and out of our Sunday meetings as our interests and schedules allowed. Our backgrounds in recording history and documentation lead to an archive of the meetings and our process in photographs and mind maps. I have since gone on to apply this practice to the Mindscrims.
