Perhaps you remember my earlier post about the knitters from Houston who are engaged in knitted graffiti.
Once again knitted graffiti is on the march, because of the Houston group, this time in Stockholm, Sweden, where graffiti is prohibited.
Imagine measuring a statue that they will knit a sweater for! I don't know whether this makes me laugh out loud (I'd love to see it) or whether I think they have too much time (or yarn) on their hands. This is taking street art to a new level.
Actually, you can find a picture of the sweatered statue here, and it does make me smile. You'll also find pictures of some of their other knitted graffiti projects.
Maskan (“the stitch”), one of three code-named female founders of the Stockholm “guerrilla knitting” group, , is telling me about their upcoming knitting graffiti action. Inspired by the Houston group, Knitta Please, Stickkontakt decorate everything from lampposts and bins to park benches and tree trunks with colorful yarns. “We often have political messages,” Maskan tells me. “But sometimes we don’t. Once, we decided to celebrate Sweden’s few female statues by dressing up four of them as super heroines.”
There is a zero tolerance policy for graffiti in Stockholm; any unauthorized street art must be removed within 24 hours. But that hasn’t dissuaded guerrilla knitters.
Does this sound like vandalism to you?
Not to me!
“We’re hoping that our actions – which can hardly be called vandalism – will serve as a kind of gateway to making people more open to street art in general,” says Maria, cofounder of another knitting graffiti group called Masquerade.
Maria and her friend Lina, the other cofounder of Masquerade, see knitting graffiti as fun, harmless, quirky, and soft, with the potential for a global impact. In fact, they recently returned from a trip where they used knitting graffiti to “tag” along the Trans-Siberian railway in Russia, Mongolia, and China.
By Nathalie Rothschild | 09.22.09
What is the difference between the two Swedish groups Guerilla Knitting and Masquerade?
Maybe not a lot. You can see pictures from Masquerade here.
Would you be a part of a knitted graffiti group?
Doing something out of the ordinary to bring color and joy to people's lives appeals to me. I could be a part of it. How about you?
Karin
A fellow knitter, at least at times, but so far no graffiti -- I tend to decorate me, my friends and family.
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Originally posted 2009-09-24 07:28:32.
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