What can we make of a pair of pants which displays all qualities of pants except for the most critical? These pants have beltloops, functional pockets, and you can wear them– just not on your legs. They art capable of reflecting the image of pants, but never of experiencing pantshood.
I used a delicate stitch here that leaves long exposed strands of yarn and these diamond-shaped windows (click for more photos). To me, these sections feel a bit like the fabric pulling apart into individual fibers, and then twisting back together into a fabric.
Graphic tees are a popular form of self-declaration-- this shirt an exercise in role-reversal: what would a shirt look like if it was wearing me? That is, if the identity declared by the relationship between myself and the shirt was the shirt’s rather than my own.
Knit ties usually have a squared end, a stockinette stitch around the neck, and a moss stitch for the wider body. This tie changes width instead through increasing and decreasing and uses a garter stitch with an i-cord around the edge. Knit with size 0 needles, and man it took forever.
I made these gloves as a commission for a Martian friend of mine-- they are modeled here on my hands but they're actually meant to go on her eye-stalks. They are a pair of stalk-warmer sleep-masks for protecting her ten eyes on cold Martian nights.
The wormie blanket is a picnic blanket for when you don't want to sit on the grass but you want to sit on the grass. Let simulation, magnification, and abstraction sheild you fron the discomforts of reality. Let the blanket lull you; "worms are not slimy," it declares, "but soft and cute."
