Knitted Together: Michael

My work overall is about celebrating the magic of the human experience. I am interested in the connections between the subject and viewer. Through my work, I ask the viewer for empathy toward the subject.

Knitted Together is a personal project. This image is part of a collection of individual digital portrait photographs of people knitting or crocheting different red garments. Each portrait is printed on canvas and framed. In each portrait, the red yarn goes out of the frame at the bottom, to be displayed as a 3-dimensional work with a single strand of yarn coming from the bottom of the frame, connecting visually to the strand in the photograph. Each piece of yarn leads to a single large ball of yarn in the center of the display.

Some red garments are at their beginning or short, some will be near the end or long. One wraps around a person’s neck. One is held in front of her abdomen and leaves a trail down her leg. Another is full of holes. These portraits each give the viewer an insight to an important element of a person’s life, hinting at many subjects, from birthing to caregiving, to sexuality, or how they live their lives, perhaps guarded or on display.

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