Dave Cole knits things... paper, pink batts, electrical cables, porcelain, lead. Anything 'weird' i guess. a cool technique of joining long threads of things together. I like knitting as a way of making things and think he has totally transformed it from having craft connotations to being ummm... just like one of those things made of something else, Claus Oldenburg's soft toilet etc. Not all that interesting because its the same concept it would seem and gets a tad boring. Basically i only like it for the fact that knitting was used. He has other cool works with knitting on a very large scale such as a teddy bear that fills the whole room made out of pink batts, well not pink batts but whatever the material is that that brand of insulation thing is made out of.
More to do with the knitting idea... an interesting environment is created from changing the surface texture of objects.
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