Extreme knitting

[vaneramos]

Yesterday afternoon djjo was featured along with other fibre artists in a show presented co-operatively by Vogue Knitting magazine and Toronto's Downtown Knit Collective. It was organized to entertain a tour of knitters visiting from New York, but the majority of the audience was local: about 120 people in all. For the first half, the magazine

Comments

[e_musings]

Wow! I am blown away! That is not the kind of knitting I have ever done or aspire to do, and I am amazed by it.

[vaneramos]

The whole prospect seems so far beyond me, of designing such a complex knitted piece, but I do so love his work with colour that it intrigues me.

[blue_by_you]

Kirk Dunn's work is freakin' incredible!! I love it.

[vaneramos]

There's so much intricacy in it: meaning and colour. You can see the strengths of Christianity in the panels forming the Cross, some of its problems symbolized in the four outer sections. I should explain these, so I'll do it here, starting from the top and working clockwise:

1. The dove of peace
   
2. a burning bush representing the murder of dissenters during the Inquistion
   
3. The lion lies down with the lamb
   
4. A crusader on a Risk board carrying a machine gun and stabbing the side of Christ
   
5. "I am the vine and you are the branches"
   
6. The oppression of women and gay people
   
7. The good Samaritan
   
8. Barbed wire around the Star of David symbolizing Christianity's failure to respond appropriately during the Holocaust.

[vaneramos]

I know, it blows me away. I can't imagine how much time he has put into this.

[susandennis]

Wow. Thanks!

[artricia]

That is impressive.