mother stitches art for son
Posted May 29th, 2009 by
kath_red
“What do you do with a broken crochet needle [hook] and a manic mother?” Artist Kevin Chin has enlisted his mum to crochet a giant structure to fill the main gallery in his new exhibition Ruined – showing at Kings ARI (Melbourne) opens on Friday 5th June, 6 – 8pm, and runs till 27th June.
The exhibition explores themes of cultural belonging and security, and indeed 400 loving hours of crochet later, what a mother will do for her children.
May 29th, 2009 at 10:00 am
[...] This hibernating thought process of mine was awakened this morning when I read an article about a very loving and patient mother that is crocheting a giant structure for her son’s exhibit in an art gallery (someone else can borrow my soapbox for sons taking advantage of mothers) and the first sentence of the article reads, “What do you do with a broken crochet needle and a manic mother?” Well, first you need to FIND a crochet needle. It’s a hook. A crochet HOOK! By the by, you never do find out a) why it was broken and 2) what to do with one. You can find the two-sentence article here. [...]
May 31st, 2009 at 12:16 am
Doesn’t this make his mother the artist?