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Guestblogging: Yarn Bombing

The bay windows at Pixel Art Academy are vast and give a panorama from your studio over Retropolis. What’s that? You move towards the glass wall to take a closer look … the park, something’s different, are the trees changing for fall/ autumn? You scramble to put your glasses on to get a better idea, the trees look to be dressed for a carnival with all the colours of the rainbow. What’s going on? You log-in to a local news forum for an answer and are informed that the trees have been yarn-bombed!

If you haven’t come across it, yarn-bombing is where graffiti and crafts combine to make a wonderful art form. The point of it is to use yarn/wool/string/old tape ribbon to cover something like a tree or a statue, bridges are popular targets and if you search for ‘yarn-bombing phone box’ you get some delightful results!

Below are some yarn bombs that one day inspire you to create your own.

Magda Sayeg is credited as being the first yarn-bombing artist after they covered the handle to their shop. So… it seems a good starting point:

This picture is from Sussex St and Kent St, Sydney and taken by Project Jam.

Other Magda Sayeg. This picture is from Kent Ave, New York and taken by Eddie O.

Moving on. Urban Cross-Stitch use chain link fence to put their design on (for more designs and a how-to guide see here).

Aida Gomez in the project ‘Home is where the heart is’.

If you have been making granny squares for your pixel art realisation projects and have a few spare, this is one idea to use them:

This was a record breaking attempt to make the largest blanket, it’s not your average yarn bomb, Helsinki Cathedral in Finland.

And another inspirational picture without a reference by artist or photographer (I’m sorry):

It’s such a great idea, covering paving blocks in yarn to make up patterns (until it rains and makes it unsafe to walk on but it could look amazing over a whole area) or even a warning for people as to do this the block must be loose first.

Yarn bombing brings colour and vibrancy into overlooked places but may not be legal in every case! Yarn Bombing is also known as Yarn-storning, Yarn Graffiti (if you are looking for more information about it). Also see Urban Cross-Stitch.

Having seen some pictures you now have a better idea of why the trees are dolled up. You decide to take a walk in the park to get a closer look.

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Insight into the life and process of a very talented pixel artist. Through economic use of colour, space, and a few animation frames, his creations gives access to an intense everyday reality. @1041uuu navigates the intrinsic limitations of the medium like none other.

Reflection on Winter

Here, I will share some of my works along with my trivial writings.

As this is a format where long texts are interspersed with "Unrelated" works, I hope it can be appreciated as such.

Please forgive the incomplete translation.

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Since I was a child, I have been dominated by an insatiable desire for someone to listen to me and understand me.

Because of this, controlling my emotions has always been difficult, and creating serene Animations became the only way to suppress those feelings.

Through painting, I found work and gained a sense of self-worth, and I finally reached a point where I could remain calm enough to read books. (Come to think of it, it was Tumblr over a decade ago that appreciated my pixel art and built a bridge to my present!!)

However, at some point, I forgot who it was I wanted to understand me and why it mattered in the first place.

As I poured my thoughts into words and delved deeper into reflection, I realized that philosophy and reading could help me in this pursuit of being understood.

However, by the time I reached that realization, I had also acquired an unsettling awareness that language dulls the visual senses.

In fact, it imparted a slight sense of symbolism to my artwork, while dulling its intuitive qualities.

This conflict likely explains why my art oscillates between symbolic representation and intuitive visual expression.

It has grown more pronounced this year. It also explains why I’ve found myself engaging in this sort of self-reflection more often than ever before.

My works exist in a complementary relationship with my self-reflection.

However, this is by no means a teleological approach—it is rooted in intrinsic impulses.

I simply, purely, and genuinely enjoy things like Gas stations on winter nights, side entrances of public facilities, rural port towns, or the colors of 100-yen lighters. That’s all there is to it, and that’s why I paint.