You Can Pry My Attention Away From String, But Not For Long
Then all at once, she decides to write to the internet at large again, . . . she writes to the internet.
PS122 Gallery! It has an awesome exhibition running through this weekend which you should totally see if you are in NYC - Yarn Theory: Knitting, Crochet, Math and Science. I believe my initial reaction to reading the blurb was to ball up my fist and bite my knuckles to keep from waking the neighbors with my squee. (Except of course that I can't be there, so it was squee mixed with a wail of crushing disappointment.)
Highlighting the work of some of today’s most interesting practitioners, Yarn Theory juxtaposes installations and art objects made with a scientific or mathematical basis as a starting point, and with mathematical models and items made explicitly to explain or clarify abstract concepts, which end up being compelling aesthetic forms unto themselves. Because of their incremental structure, the crafted shapes often mimic growth systems found in nature. Today’s needle workers, many of who are also scientists and mathematicians professionally, are exploring such correlations.
Emphasis my own. Because how many times does this need to be repeated before people start believing me?
People are also finally starting to publish on the subject too. Which is great, but not as great as seeing a gallery filled with mathematically structured string.
PS122 Gallery! It has an awesome exhibition running through this weekend which you should totally see if you are in NYC - Yarn Theory: Knitting, Crochet, Math and Science. I believe my initial reaction to reading the blurb was to ball up my fist and bite my knuckles to keep from waking the neighbors with my squee. (Except of course that I can't be there, so it was squee mixed with a wail of crushing disappointment.)
Highlighting the work of some of today’s most interesting practitioners, Yarn Theory juxtaposes installations and art objects made with a scientific or mathematical basis as a starting point, and with mathematical models and items made explicitly to explain or clarify abstract concepts, which end up being compelling aesthetic forms unto themselves. Because of their incremental structure, the crafted shapes often mimic growth systems found in nature. Today’s needle workers, many of who are also scientists and mathematicians professionally, are exploring such correlations.
Emphasis my own. Because how many times does this need to be repeated before people start believing me?
People are also finally starting to publish on the subject too. Which is great, but not as great as seeing a gallery filled with mathematically structured string.