about the installation

This project continues my dedication to crochet Guido Molinari’s paintings. As his student at Concordia I employed his manifesto “painting should neither represent nor deal with the object, but on the contrary, should attempt to become an object itself” thus solidifying my defense of crocheting in a painting class.

We acknowledged the similarities of our work: his rhythmic painted panels of acrylic colour onto canvas and my rhythmic hooking of acrylic yarn into an object. However, his context was the academic & patriarchal art world while mine aimed to overturn that world’s rejection of activities usually ascribed to the domestic, ‘leisurely’ female.

On Nov 6th I will install myself in the front window at the Craft Council of BC and begin crocheting a Molinari painting. As the days progress, the community will interact with and observe the on going labour and growth of the object, or ‘painting’, filling the space around me.