This piece is #24 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 very tricky to make. I wanted to investigate the steel and fiber truly exchanging places in the plane, and I had to knit around the center pieces of metal while actually keeping the entire piece in my lap while finishing knitting the fabric for the piece. I think of this as a kind of illusion piece, as you can't see where the steel connects and yet you know it can't just be floating as it looks.
