Art Craft
#anatomy #animals #bones #Caitlin McCormack #crochet
Decaying Animal Skeletons Crocheted From String by Artist Caitlin McCormack
Caitlin McCormack creates crocheted animals that appear to decay in front of your eyes, delicate corpses crafted from cotton string and glue. To produce each of her sculptures she must stiffen the string which produces a consistency similar to the bone tissue of the animals she is recreating. These fragile remains appear extremely macabre, a typically cute hobby made somewhat morbid.
Documented on dark backgrounds, the details of her creations are all the more apparent, string dangling from bits of the animals’s arms and wings as if it was truly decomposing. By using a technique inherited from her deceased relatives McCormack says she “aim[s] to generate emblems of my diminishing bloodline, embodied by each organism’s skeletal remains.”
McCormack studied Illustration at the University of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA. Her work will be featured within Opus Hypnagogia: Sacred Spaces of the Visionary and Vernacular at The Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, New York which runs through October 15th. (via Laughing Squid and Beautiful Decay)
World Before the World, 2014
World Before the World II, 2014
Bound, As It Were, 2015
Mothering, 2015
Ghost, 2014
Crawlspace, 2014
The Organist, 2013
#anatomy #animals #bones #Caitlin McCormack #crochet
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