We have found the response to our public knitted works is
overwhelmingly positive. People love to stop and chat while we’re installing it
and sometimes we sneakily sit by to watch people admire it once it’s done. But
occasionally we do get asked “why?”.
Knitted graffiti, also known as yarn bombing or guerrilla knitting,
is done for lots of different reasons. It can be politically driven, as in the
case of these
protesting feminists, an artistic endeavour, like
this big pink bull, or done just for fun. We do it for all three of these reasons.
We do understand that knitted graffiti is not to everyone’s
tastes, but we hope that you recognise the many hours of work involved and can
be assuaged by this other fact – unlike other forms of graffiti it can be
removed very easily!
Yes it’s silly, but it also makes a lot of people smile,
which we think is a pretty good reason for doing it.
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