"I used to be an Intellectual..."

“I used to be an Intellectual… Then I had children!” -Bill Cosby

I will be the first to admit something happens to your mind when you spend most of your conscious time with a non-verbal, breast obsessed male… Lately, I’ve been fascinated by Norah Gaughan’s Celestine pattern for Polyhedrons (as you can see in my other projects). I hope she (or Buckminster Fuller r.i.p.) is not too taken aback by my Fiber Art homage to Motherhood, Breastfeeding & Baby Boys.

Any hoo… I have taken Celestine as a starting point & then went off the rails with the “Boob-a-Hedron”! This is the first piece of art I've felt COMPELLED to make since Sam's birth. I mean the kind of driven, stay-up-late-and-not-care kind of art I love to make. The kind of art that causes you to have an internal dialogue like a child making mud-pies... when time has no meaning & you only love your present moment kind of thing... Sigh.

I changed the increases to make for more rounded breasts & modified the closures to shape out the nipples.

Yes. I know it's absurd.

If you’re not laughing… Then you just don’t get it.

There are stars in the structure!!!

I also think it rather odd & beautiful that the unstuffed Boob-a-hedron looks a little bit like a Lotus Flower!

Sam really enjoys the piece. I waited to unveil it at my Tuesday night knitting group (Quills Knitters)... Not only did I want to show off the piece, I wanted the ladies to get the full enjoyment of watching Sam's first impression. Thankfully, our fearless leader, Sonya, was there with her camera. I adore the sequence of Sam's reactions: Astonishment, Infatuation, then... Frustration with Artifice ("Hey! These things don't work!").

I did do a "serious" art piece on the multi-breast theme two years ago, when I still had some ambitions to capital "A" Ahrrrt! (Those ambitions are currently dormant... not dead!)

It was well received as a performance art costume/performance & I was really proud to have it hang here in Louisville at the Zephyr Gallery for a few months as part of a show the performances curator/coordinator Michelle Kellond Amos was having... I'm sure more than a few of the visitors that came there thought she did every piece in the show... I was just thrilled to be out there showing at all!

I don't know if the Artist's Statement is readable here... During the Performances, MKA read our words & there was incredible improvised jazz by Ut Gret while we danced around in our costumes. It was probably ridiculously pretentious. I don't care. I had a blast!

I'd love to do more Art. Each Summer I swear I'm gonna get enough stuff together for a gallery show of my own... Perhaps this is the year...

You knowwhat? Why is knitting never given gallery space? I see tons of things on Ravelry that would definitely qualify as Art rather than Craft (I'll write an entry about Art vs. Craft later, I suppose...). So... Why no knitting?