Who killed Bambi? - from the series Crossing Wonderland, 2008
Today I stumbled upon and fell head-over-heels in love with textile/crochet artist Patricia Waller. This Berlin-based artist is right up my morbid alley (so morbid am I that I did an essay at Uni about the aesthetic value of post-mortem photography).
Back to Patricia, because what she does with her crochet sculptures is she takes a homely craft that is normally associated with cosy grannies and cutesy baby toys and gives it a gigantic bloody whack in the forehead with her crochet hook.
A lot of the sculptures are pretty big, up to 2 metres long. I have no idea how expensive these things are but I if our flat was big enough I would happily let one of these creatures inhabit a corner.
Here are a few of my favourites, you can see more right here.
Rabbit 2 - from the series Rabbits, 2003
Accident 4 - from the series Accidents, 2004
Unicorn - from the series Crossing Wonderland, 2005
Bad Luck - from the series Crossing Wonderland 2007
Twins 1 - from the series Twins, 2005
Accident 4 - from the series Accidents, 2004
Antlers, 2002
Bird in the Hand, 2006
Baby Ghost, 2006
Rabbit 1 - from the series Rabbits, 2003
All pictures are © Patricia Waller and via www.patriciawaller.com
Mette Bassett 