Comments on: Auction #8: Valentines Falls Away Like Memories

By: Chandra Peltier

Chandra Peltier — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:37:45 +0000

My mom is a fiber artist, so I have grown up with a deep love for handmade fibers. I love these gorgeous colors and textures!

By: Shira Lipkin

Shira Lipkin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:18:43 +0000

I am so in love with this. You don’t even *know*.The yarn colors are based on the different settings in the story, and – such rich and beautiful color!

If I win it, it will be a scarf or trim a shawl. Any time the words slip out, I will nestle them into the crooks of trees, or tuck them into blank books.

So much love.

By: K. Tempest Bradford

K. Tempest Bradford — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:56:23 +0000

I posted this on my blog but feel it needs to be here as well:

I really like this piece, but I kept wondering if it would be possible to actually DO something with that yarn. Like knit it into a scarf or something. So I asked the artist, the faboo Emily Wagner, and she said:

“You can TOTALLY knit with it. I mean, the paper is going to be falling out, but the yarn itself should be pretty structurally sound. I soaked it and stretched it on my swift when I was done skeining it up, which took FOREVER, BTW. :) I think it would be a really cool textural scarf, with lots of dropped stitches to show it off.”

And here’s the thing: whatever anyone makes from this yarn, it will also be interstitial art. And the fact that the bits of paper will fall away adds this layer of transience to it. Like, no matter what, the Valentines will continue to fall away, until all that’s left is the memory within the yarn itself, in the person who made the yarn, and in the person who knitted it. There are just so many layers of meaning inherent in this art — layers that reveal themselves over time — that I can’t believe more people are not bidding on this. If you knit, you must bid.

By: Interfictions 2 Reading and Concert, Friday! Boston! « Stackscene

Interfictions 2 Reading and Concert, Friday! Boston! « Stackscene — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:15:18 +0000

[...] And while we’re talking about Interfictions, you should know that the Interstitial Arts Foundation, who put out the book and are sponsoring the event, are also running an auction of art pieces inspired by the stories in the collection. You can see them all here, and, oh, right, this one’s mine. [...]