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Leigh Martin’s Knitted Forms of Funghi
These knitted forms of funghi by Leigh Martin are rather beautiful. She is pursuing a project entitled ’52 Forms of Funghi’ throughout 2013 whilst challenging herself to knit new structures based upon the organisms that can be found all around us.
The main image above is take from Leigh’s previous ‘Decomposition’ series of land art installations. These works seek to explore the cycles of the natural world.
It’s interesting to have stumbled across these works having seen the recent trend for yarn bombing in the cities. Unlike yarn bomb installations that I’ve come across these works are sympathetic to their environment mimicking forms that already exist. It’s only really on closer inspection that we can identify these works as fibre art installations and not funghi.
Yarn bombers tend to approach their work from a different angle to this, bringing colour and a playful vigour to what many might consider to be dull grey urban environments. You can find out more about yarn bombing on the Knit The City website.
I’ll be interested to see how the ’52 Forms of Funghi’ project develops. You can view more of Leigh’s work on her website at www.cargocollective.com/bromeleighad
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