Knitted skeleton

I'm agog at Ben Cuevas's knitted skeleton installation -- as @laurenbeukes says, "Check out the vertebrae!"

"The installation piece Ben Cuevas chose to showcase at The Wassaic Project features a knitted skeleton seated atop a pyramid of Borden's condensed milk cans and a cloud of screen prints on Plexi glass suspended above it. The knitted skeleton is seated in the lotus position. The prints are of disembodied anatomical parts photographed in high resolution with diagrammatic illustrative overlays. Ben conceives of the piece as a reference to material culture and Wassaic's local history (The Borden Company had a condensed milk factory in Wassaic) and a meditation on transcendence." -Bora Mici

Transcending the Material (via @laurenbeukes)

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PaulR

If this had been created with a 3D printer, we’d all be ‘Meh’.

Some of my most treasured posessions are the sweaters my mother knitted. This is great stuff! Thanks, Cory.
Anonymous

This is amazing!
imag

That is really really amazing.
blueelm

Wow. That’s really amazingly beautiful. Really simple, great choice of materials, and really well done.
Snig

That’s cool. They’re actually all knitted, you just need a scope to see the weave.
Julie

If you think this is cool, we’ve got an animator here at the National Film Board of Canada who’s creating a short film about a voyage through a knitted body. You can see her progress and tests here: http://blog.nfb.ca/author/candacec/

There’s even a post called Esophagus Tours, $5.
facetedjewel

And I thought knitting gloves and socks were an exercise in structure – yeesh!
Anonymous

Dia de los Muertos will never be the same!