I started these at the fingertips and crocheted my way upward, unsure about its final form. Had I been able to work faster the piece would have been a different one, as in my head it went through all kinds of mutations, but by the time I had the arms done I knew I wanted tights.
I feel inordinately pleased with this diminutive object (diminutive not so much in terms of size, I've made smaller objects, but in the vibrations it gives off: not like a song sung at the top of one's voice, more like a murmur or a hum).
Writing about the memory of my cousin E. ties in with the need (and this need has been at the heart of my art practice for years), to try and find ways of considering difference. Here it’s about the sense of difference a child might have, of not being, not feeling ‘right’. From somewhere a purple shadow fell.
The title is inspired by a line in a poem by Emily Dickinson who, inspired by Lesley, I have lately been reading much more closely:
It would have starved a Gnat
To live so small as I—
And there is something here of the Empedokles-quote I am still enamoured by.
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It took me a little while I couldn't remember where it was but I found your red 'handle bar' dress! I like your crochet work so much. In a way it's a bit lop sided too (crochet) I think this way of making stitches with only one needle, one hand making all the work happen. And incredibly sad - the quote. That grave look children sometimes have in their eyes.
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