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Create your own work of art – if you dare!!!

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It is amazing what you can find on youtube.com and the things it inspires you to do! Andy Jones, my PA found this video featuring great works of art by Joe Ponciano that he created and thought “it looks pretty easy” and gave it a go. Well it truly became a labour of love – her eyes are now the size of pins as she focused on the minature holes in the chicken wire and she swears she has no feeling in the ends of her fingers from the thousands (she said tens of thousands?) of cable ties she threaded. I think the results are pretty spectacular and she said she will never do it again, till she looked re-looked at the site and thought ‘the wall feature looks good’! Stay tuned.

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knitting as an artform?

Posted on by shaynna

With the economic climate and a need to turn inward a surgance in the crafts has emerged in the past 12 months. Although ahead of its time, a bar in Smith Street, Melbourne held knitting nights that was definatly welcome to anyone from 18 upwards and brought the cool back into knitting. Knitting isnt new, although the origins and beginnings are sketchy and it has the stamp of being a hobby, but there are some amazing pieces of art from the medium of knitting. I love the fact you can use something as simple as a pieceof wool and a couple of sticks and produce something amazing. What does this have to do with interiors? Thinking outside the square. Look at the sculpture that can be made from something that is traditionally for fashion and think of basic things on hand that you can turn into a masterpiece.
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