Caitlin McCormack is known for crocheted skeleton animals and otherworldly plants that suffer from speculative futures of environmental disasters to the planet. The theme of skeleton young birds and mammals is seen as a cautious story about today’s relationship with nature, and how disconnected and disastrous it is.
Through crochet, we often associate family comfort and even quaintness, and the artist triggers a medium of nostalgia to gaze closer at what we now overlook. Skeletal specimens and strange plant sculptures complement stones and knife bundles wrapped in lace fibers.
New work being watched this weekend There you will find the stone In the Harman project. The show includes an ambiguous blue wall sculpture called “Earth Earth Earth Balls exist” which contains niacs for tiny objects found. The McCormack is paired with a slightly disturbing tone and a series of gentle crochet packaging that spells out the homage to tiny neglected or discarded items.
Many titles of the artist’s work express a feeling of fear, tension or excessiveness. A series of titles They’re back, but they’ll never be the same Sculptures such as “Don’t Let Parties Die” suggest a crisis of control in humanity. “You chose the wrong one,” a bunch of disturbing, skeletal young birds, with omens at the edge.
McCormack’s recent work has also come from her attempts to deal with losses and illness in her family, including her own medical diagnosis. “These experiences facilitate reassessment of deeply rooted positions of existence, especially those in periods of anxiety with skepticism, atheism and anxiety disorders,” she said in a statement. The works “a manifestation of an evolving worldview shaped by grief, loss and obsessive-compulsive disorder of meaning”.
There you will find the stone It will be held in New York City from July 12 to August 2. Find more information on the artist’s website and on Instagram.
