This artwork has been installed in the Strand Arcade to celebrate Wool Week. Textile artist Magda Sayeg has created an installation of two six-metre-tall fibreglass gumtrees and a lamp post wrapped in over 600 metres of colourful Australian Merino wool. This type of graffiti art which involves covering trees, lamp posts or other objects in knitting is known as "yarn bombing".
Thanks for this shot, Jim. Not for the yarn bombing, just the Strand Arcade – still remembered after forty years living away from Sydney as a real touch of class. Hope it still is.
ReplyDeleteThat is such fun!!
ReplyDeleteheard of these things all over the place but never actually encountered one yet
ReplyDeleteAmazing! I have seen this on a small scale, but never with this much wool.
ReplyDeletelooks so good. Shannon Reserve is in Crown Street opposite the library.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Peter. I go there all the time but didn't recognise it from your angle.
DeleteYarn bombing and textile artist are all new to me. It looks like they can produce really cool colourful pieces of art.
ReplyDeleteI think yarn bombing is just plain wierd, though with this one being a fake tree so I guess is it art.
ReplyDeleteI love this beautiful tree, nice photo!
ReplyDeleteStrand Arcade looks fantastic and so does the tree. Go Magda!
ReplyDeleteLove this one! Great colors and really gave me a smile to see a tree in a sweater. :)
ReplyDeletei like that, much nicer than ugly graffiti!
ReplyDeleteWell we are coming up for winter Jim :)
ReplyDeleteLove the perspective of this shot, and what a great idea to wrap the tree in yarn! Colorful AND gets the idea across!
ReplyDeleteLove the yarn bombing
ReplyDeleteI am a knitter and I think this is the coolest idea ever. Would love to see it done here in the US. So colorful and pretty. genie
ReplyDeleteLove the rainbowed tree trunk. Many of the trees in a park near us were covered in crocheted wool during a recent festival. There was a tag on each one indicating that they had been the subject of "crochet bombing". The term did give me a chuckle at the time.
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