Knitted Artwork

Knitting fascinates me, because it works with the same structural principles  as our cell-structure. You take a cell (loop), join many cells to form a structure  (knitted fabric) - and this serves a life-giving purpose (heart, lungs, kidneys, skin e.g.). The structure of knitted fabric resembles the structure of nature and can therefore depict natural organic and biological shapes and forms.  If you blow up the dimensions of the knitted fabric, environments of wheat and flower-fields are formed and gigantic twines grow through the gallerys and frightening overdimensioned body-fragments hang from walls. The knitting in this dimension, the association with craft forwards another meaning, that transcends just being a motif or ornament on a pullover or pillow. Haptic aspects of this work become overly present and the structural composition becomes obvious. The viewer is enveloped by woolen environments. Art-fair visitors confronted with my work for the first time reflected, that the structures principles are based on natures structure. It´s interesting, that we knit up a structure based on natures principles of structure, in order to warm, protect and decorate our body with a second skin, without realizing the immense creative potential, that exists aside of cultural receptions and cultural usages.