Look what was found on the north bank of the Clyde about a month ago. Rather fine mohair domes – entirely suitable to punctuate the cold crisp air currently being experienced in the northern hemisphere. I hope they are still there shining through snow and fog – friendly beacons for all.
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A knitted sphere cover was installed outside Vodafone side door in Maastricht Friday 23rd April 2010 at about 7.30am The picture gallery from Connielene is here
There were 3 balls and the one closest to the road was covered with the red and white Vodafone logo knitted piece. Vodafone Maastricht Ball Cover
We are about 3 hours from Maastricht so cannot report if the knitted cover remained after 3.30pm on Friday.
A new piece of knit graffiti will be installed on Friday morning in Maastricht, before breakfast even. There are several issues for the installer – it will be daylight, and it hasn’t been tested. Best Beloved did the measurements, hope he recorded them correctly
But the question is “Will it be an Orange piece”, or Will it actually be the Red & White one? Whichever colour it is, it will be round.
Orange or maybe it will be Red & White
These Haarlem Balls have now been removed and unless they return before we leave the Netherlands, my custom made Ball Warmers have no balls to call home.
And these photographs may be the only ones ever that record an event, an art installation, a modification of the cold crisp environment with soft coloured yarns to surprise and delight in a winter wonderland.
We hope that the “tree and scarf” series delights you as much as it delighted us in creating or responding to a huge amount of snow here in Haarlem, the Netherlands, January 2010.
So from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I see that
A sphere (from Greek σφαῖρα—sphaira, “globe, ball”) is a perfectly round geometrical object in three-dimensional space, such as the shape of a round ball. Like a circle in three dimensions, a perfect sphere is completely symmetrical around its center, with all points on the surface lying the same distance from the center point. This distance is known as the radius of the sphere. The maximum straight distance through the sphere is known as the diameter of the sphere. It passes through the center and is thus twice the radius.
In higher mathematics, a careful distinction is made between the sphere (a two-dimensional spherical surface embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space) and the ball (the three-dimensional shape consisting of a sphere and its interior). See the Wikipedia article here
So there we have it.
In the Beginning there was a cold tree in Haarlem
And the tree still has its scarf – nearly 6 weeks later.
An email regarding Altered Environments, Knit Art Graffiti, Land Art, Guerilla Art, Yarn Bombing, Installation Fibre Art, arrived in my inbox. I knew nothing of those things.
Well that is not entirely true, I had been watching from a very safe distance. Now I have jumped in boots and all – and I so want to do more of this exciting stuff.
Some of the challenge is the fact my first piece was spherical – and not just because it was in a public space. Creating a textile piece using knitting as the medium is not so easy for a large solid concrete round ball. A SAGGY piece is not art or attractive (unless you create it so), so this has been a huge learning curve for me. I am used to pieces for the body, and some flat rectangular work (scarves and wall hangings). Circular knitting – I do all the time, but spherical – that is so different.
So I hope you come along on my journey and that you do not mind my side trips into other Urban art forms.
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