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September 23, 2005
rabbit, rabbit
Have you seen the giant knitted bunny that's been erected on a mountain near Piemonte, Italy? It's stuffed with hay, and the artist plans to leave it in place for 20 years. What about rain and mold, not to mention spontaneous combustion?
Here's the press release:
Rabbit
The things one finds wandering in a landscape: familiar things and utterly unknown, like a flower one has never seen before, or, as Columbus discovered, an inexplicable continent; and then, behind a hill, as if knitted by giant grandmothers, lies this vast rabbit, to make you feel as small as a daisy.
The toilet-paper-pink creature lies on its back: a rabbit-mountain like Gulliver in Lilliput. Happy you feel as you climb up along its ears, almost falling into its cavernous mouth, to the belly-summit and look out over the pink woolen landscape of the rabbit's body, a country dropped from the sky; ears and limbs sneaking into the distance; from its side flowing heart, liver and intestines.
Happily in love you step down the decaying corpse, through the wound, now small like a maggot, over woolen kidney and bowel. Happy you leave like the larva that gets its wings from an innocent carcass at the roadside.
Such is the happiness which made this rabbit.
I love the rabbit; the rabbit loves me.
Posted by Karen at September 23, 2005 12:56 PM
Comments
Is anyone familiar with the "Tumbling Blocks" pattern? I would really like to try it but do not want to use so many differnet colors. Would it be possible to cut the nummber of colors way down and still get the same 3D effect?
Posted by: Linda at September 26, 2005 11:43 AM
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