https://c.im/@simbarr/113634754620384791 simbarr@c.im - Invisible Jumpers

Photographer Joseph Ford and knitter Nina Dodd have for the last several years worked on their collaborative project called Invisible Jumpers, in which Dodd would knit a garment that blends in with a chosen environment and then Ford would photograph the wearer.  The book was published in 2019 ... but the project continues adding animals, arists, musicians to the project.  As Ford explains:

"The locations have to be eye-catching but simple enough to be able to be knitted. They also have to be places that aren’t going to change too fast, as the knitting takes a few weeks...

Once I’ve found the location, I photograph someone standing where I would like the model to be in the final picture. I draw over this scouting photograph and annotate the picture with different colors and patterns so Nina can plan how to knit. Often there are 10 or 12 different shades of yarn in a single picture, and up to 24 balls of wool at any one time for the more complicated designs. The choice of yarn has varied according to the background."

#invisiblejumpers #jumpers #sweaters #josephford #ninadodd #knitting #photographyseries #photographybook #photoseries #knittingproject #camouflage #art #artworld #denismeyers #collaboration #artcollaboration #photographer #knitter #tricoteuse #stricker #pullover #suéter

https://c.im/@simbarr/113634770772911994 simbarr@c.im - Invisible Jumpers

Photographer Joseph Ford and knitter Nina Dodd have for the last several years worked on their collaborative project called Invisible Jumpers, in which Dodd would knit a garment that blends in with a chosen environment and then Ford would photograph the wearer.  The book was published in 2019 ... but the project continues adding animals, arists, musicians to the project.  As Ford explains:

"The locations have to be eye-catching but simple enough to be able to be knitted. They also have to be places that aren’t going to change too fast, as the knitting takes a few weeks...

Once I’ve found the location, I photograph someone standing where I would like the model to be in the final picture. I draw over this scouting photograph and annotate the picture with different colors and patterns so Nina can plan how to knit. Often there are 10 or 12 different shades of yarn in a single picture, and up to 24 balls of wool at any one time for the more complicated designs. The choice of yarn has varied according to the background."

#invisiblejumpers #jumpers #sweaters #josephford #ninadodd #knitting #photographyseries #photographybook #photoseries #knittingproject #camouflage #art #artworld #denismeyers #collaboration #artcollaboration #photographer #knitter #tricoteuse #stricker #pullover #suéter

On #CancelCulture and #FreeSpeech in the #ArtWorld:

Are those artists who are now losing money and representation for failing to condemn Hamas able to understand that the free speech they desire is the same free speech desired by all the others they previously canceled? It would be easy—and somewhat gratifying—to point out their hypocrisy. But there is a real opportunity here to reject cynicism and careerism and, instead, to insist that while we may disagree, we don’t have to destroy each other.

https://compactmag.com/article/the-fog-of-art

Books that I read in 2021 - number 19:

Right after the first part, I have now read the second part of the Copenhagen trilogy by this great female writer. Youth is the title and that is exactly what this unfortunately very slim book is about. With a clear, humorous style, she describes her years after leaving school and her path to becoming a poet. Now I have really turned into a Tove Ditlevsen fan.

#ToveDitlevsen #copenhagen #denmark #kindheit #buch #autorin #femalewriter #worker #workingclass #dreissigerjahre #autofictional #trilogy #recomendation #books #literature #fan #office #poet #artworld #verleger #vesterbro