By Martha Peters
AUSTIN, TX -- Ninety trees on the University of Texas campus recently doned hand-knitted "sweaters" as part of Magda Sayeg's Knitted Wonderland - an unexpected temporary installation on the Faulkner Plaza in between the Blanton Museum of Art's stately Michener and Smith buildings. The artist recruited over 170 local volunteer knitters whose work was visually linked with a yarn palette of green, aqua, pink and "Hook 'em, Horns" orange. The tactile nature of the various stitches, from stockinette to cable to popcorn, not to mention belts and ruffles, tempted passersby to examine each tree closely with their eyes and their hands. As a "Texas Ex", it warmed my heart to see such whimsy at UT.
(Photos by Martha Peters and Terra Vickner)
Check out Yarn Bombing and Made in Slant for other knitted interventions.
Those were colourful trunks of tress. I think they take time knitting, because they were able to complete the art. And they were able to make it, because they are used to knit.
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