Faux

I thought I had posted this but I guess I didn't. This was for my individualized class where we were supposed to recreate and/or improve a failed piece. The most horrible piece ever [first picture] was a piece I did for my sculpture class freshman year where we had to make an abstract human emotion or gesture appear to not be human, but still convey the emotion, and enlarge it to human size, out of wood. yeah. I was so confused...still am. so I made this horrible thing out of millions of wooden skewers that was at first supposed to represent an awkward hug from a taller person [installation not shown] but when we were required to move the pieces down to a show case, I placed it on a pedestal that when touched would rock back and forth which I liked better so then I renamed it 'beckoning'. The whole point of the piece for me was to make it seem as though it wasn't made out of wood. to make it appear either in motion or soft [which didn't work as planned]. that was my only goal.

so for the new piece I decided to follow that train of thought, but in reverse. I wanted to make something that looked like wood. so I decided to knit and embroider wood panels. of course this piece didn't work out as I had planned either [I was planning on making this crazy interactive game where you built something with the planks] but the wool I had chosen [for it's sheen that to me, resembled hardwood flooring] was too expensive for such a grand idea. so instead I made a tree trunk like collar/cowl/scarf thing which is so chubby and soft and warm. it was made out of 3 skeins of merino wool which created 14 different sized planks of 40, 60, 80, and 100 stitches that I then stitched together to create a double wall effect. I think I could have done better with the wood grain but you know how time doesn't exist and all so this idea is something I would like to continue. Both are failed projects to me so maybe the third time is the charm!