Crochet sculpture

Beautiful hyperbolic #crochet # art from mathematician / artist Gabriele Meyer

Hypnagogia–a fancy Greek word for the transition from wakefulness to sleep–is a state of consciousness in which trippy mental phenomena like lucid dreaming, hallucinations, and sleep paralysis occur. It’s a state that artists and scientists through the ages have famously mined for ideas–Beethoven, Salvador Dalí, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla and Isaac Newton all credited hypnagogia with enhancing their creativity. Opus Hypnagogia: Sacred Spaces of the Visionary and...

Crochet artist Abinocoe makes great sculptural crochet pieces and sells patterns for them on Etsy.

Australian textile artist Trevor Smith learned how to crochet from his mother when he was just a child. His first projects were baby blankets for family friends and doll clothes for his younger cou…

Liz Flynn says that her and Alyssa Arney’s love of crochet is an obsession.

Every Halloween I have the best of intentions to get a costume together and head out on the town, and every Halloween I end up staying in. Living in an apartment there aren’t even trick or tr…

Yulia Ustinova is a Russian artist who uses the art of crocheting to replicate famous artworks or to arrange new shapes totally made by her. She has been formally trained in art and has taken her training along with using the old craft of crochet to sculpture her ‘big women’ or in Russian, “tetki” – it means uneducated and ungroomed women. She was born in an artistic family. Her mother is a sculptor, her father is a book illustrator. Her mother is very good at handiwork, so she has taught…

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