Occurrence #12 by Amanda Langer

Amanda Langer

Occurrence #12, 2024

Steel & Fiber

6 x 6 x 2 in (15.24 x 15.24 x 5.08 cm)

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This piece is #12 of 30 in the series of work I created for the 30x30x30 Exhibition for Var Gallery in 2024. The challenge was to for every artist in the show to create 30 pieces of work in 30 days. We started on January 1 and created one piece for day with the requirement that all 30 pieces had to be completed by the end of the month. All pieces in the exhibition had a maximum size of 6 x 6 x 6 inches. My goal for this project was to develop new ideas for how to combine yarn and steel; the breakneck speed with which I had to make work meant that I didn't have time to overthink the ideas--I just had to try them and see how they turned out. Every piece taught me something about my own work and my own process. Every one was revelatory in some way. While I don't believe all of them are true successes, I only really see a couple of them as disappointments. And even in those cases, the disappointment stems from the execution, not the idea itself.

This piece was initially a look into shaping knitting into 3D structure, a theme I play with often in this series. Originally it was to be sewn into the surface of the metal. however, the way the knitting sort of hovered over the surface of the metal was very interesting, and I thought it was a better result than connecting the two materials.