ELECTRIC SHEEP
Electric Sheep is a stop frame animation made from individual filet crochet figures jumping over a fence in a never ending loop.
Inspired by the title of the Philip K Dick book ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep’ this work is a glimpse into what a crafted digital future could look like. The binary nature of filet crochet, with it’s open and closed squares, is used to create a simulation of pixelated imagery and to generate a hybrid expression that is both textile and digital. Perhaps robots would yearn for domesticity and dream of traditional hand craft as they drift off to sleep?
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2020
Stop frame animation, hand made crochet, plywood, acrylic, cotton thread, metal bolts
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exhibited:
Selected for Seed Stitch Contemporary Textile Awards 2020
- winner yarn innovation award
- acquired by Tamworth Regional Gallery
- exhibited Australian Design Centre
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