Spinhandspun: The Blog…
What began as personal record of my fiber exploits morphed into a database for fiber artists and fans of the craft. Subscribers have access to artist reviews, media updates, opportunities, calls for entries, book reviews, tutorials, and inspirational resources aggregated into one source via Spinhandspun.
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Spinhandspun: The Artist…
The relationship between technology and humanity has always been symbiotic as neither can advance without the other. Today’s community engages itself via mass produced objects and digital mediums that dictates its interactions. Ideas are communicated instantaneously despite physical distances and symbols compartmentalize our cultural interactions into informational tidbits that, en masse, become incomplete representations of reality.
My work urges viewers to critically re-examine our technological landscapes by interacting with them through a handmade lens. Thus, we focus on the underlying human presence shadowed by our advancements. By covering construction sites, road signs, and technologies in handmade materials, we are reminded that our symbolic environments deserve a second skin: softer, warmer, imperfect, and tattooed with subtle reminders of our humanity. In an effort to reach a broader audience, my work balances the intersections between technology and the handmade, between art, craft, and design, and between the gallery and the public spheres
Spinhandspun: The Designer…
In order to fund my public projects, I specialize in creating custom felted cozies for your mp3 players, cell phones, laptops, cameras, and other virtual technologies!
All objects are one of a kind, knitted and felted using 100% Pure Merino wool, and embellished by hand.
send your custom case request to: spinhandspun@gmail.com
For pre-designed collections, and to place custom orders, visit my Etsy shop at: http://www.spinhandspun.etsy.com
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[...] delight led me to concur with Kristin at Spinhandspun Design who observes that: By covering construction sites, road signs, and technologies in handmade [...]
Pingback by The Joy of Finding Guerilla Knitting « Clyde Street October 30, 2009 @ 3:21 AMHey, the website looks great! I had not seen it in a while..
Comment by Martyn November 10, 2009 @ 3:07 PMThanks, Martyn! As does Old Roads. Hope all is well with you!
Comment by spinhandspun January 6, 2010 @ 11:25 PM@ Kristin
I was interested in what you were doing, and I didn’t even get around to asking about a possible commission idea that I want to do. That said you should start to show your face a bit at the space and we can talk about things. I am really glad that you had an explosion of ideas, as it has happened to me many times at meetings and I’ll let you know that it doesn’t get old. Further I think I told you but I love that Nina lady I my latest project is inspired by one of hers I have started working on it over at http://www.themountainfold.com/rocks it’s inspired by the rock thing that she did I need to put up a description of it. We can chat via email….did you get the forwarding thing figured?
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10957
Nice site too by the way.
Comment by Paul February 14, 2010 @ 10:09 AM