Artists
Statement
I grow mapping cylinders with yarn by seamlessly crocheting along ribbon graphs made from foundation chains. Choosing the foundation chain graph is the most creative part of a project for me. When the final piece slowly grows and reveals its form with a little of my help, it feels like magic. Each piece is also a puzzle: the observers are invited to think how they would make such a surface and why the surface is the one I claim.
Artworks
Zoom In, Zoom Out
20.0 x 48.0 x 25.0 cm
wool, nylon, copper
2025
The two pieces in this set are made from the cube grid where edges in one direction twist in the opposite direction from the ones in the perpendicular direction, applied to the annulus in two different ways. When zooming out, we see the annuli. When zooming in, we see complex surfaces: the left is an orientable surface with genus 9 bounded by 12 unlinked unknots, and the right is a nonorientable surface with genus 29 bounded by a (7, 8)-torus knot. There is a similar hierarchy of structures in nature.
Sixfold Serenade
20.0 x 45.0 x 20.0 cm
wool, nylon, copper
2025
Pieces in this set are characterized by chiral tetrahedral symmetry and are bounded by six components. The top is a branched surface, whose foundation chain is based on the 5-cell. Each edge allows three directions of growth and twists by 120 degrees. This is an example of topological crochet’s power beyond ordinary surfaces. The bottom is a nonorientable surface with genus 6, whose foundation chain is from two concentric and connected layers. A curious fact about its boundary is that each component is a perfect circle, and given any number, the links formed by any subset of these circles with that number are the same.