Video: Emily Barletta: the woman who knows how to knit pain
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Emily Barletta's work is a kind of fusion of sculpture and knitting. Each work begins with a hook and a skein of thread - no plans in your head or diagrams on paper. Emily believes that the end result will come to her on her own. And it really comes - in the form of a symbolic image of blood cells, human tissues and diseases.
To engage in this kind of art, Emily pushed the disease: most of her life a woman suffers from back pain. There is nothing surprising here: many people with similar ailments like to do needlework in general and crochet in particular. Only unlike most of the craftswomen who create lace napkins, collars and shawls, the results of our heroine's work are much more original.
Emily Barletta claims that knitting helps her to express physical pain and through her hands to release it from her body. "Making art has become that part of my day that I really look forward to, because at this time I can seem to leave my own body and place myself in a small piece of art."
Emily Barletta started knitting several years ago. It can take any amount of time to create one piece - from three months to a year. As mentioned above, she never plans in advance what to knit. “I try to focus on my movements while working, and not on the end result,” says the author. - The material has the property of naturally growing and moving the way it wants. Every thing I create is a physical container filled with memories, thoughts and experiences that overwhelm me while I work. As a result, imaginary forms of blood, muscles, cells, organs, diseases appear”.
Emily Barletta was born in 1982 in the US state of Utah. In 2003 she graduated with a bachelor's degree from Maryland Institute College of Art. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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