GRETA GRIP

Dot, Sammy, April, Sara from Forest Row Farm are hand knitted four QR Codes (Quick Response codes), representing four chapters, were made from four sheep: Dot, Sammy, April, and Sara, born and raised at Forest Row Farm. One day four sheep were followed: eating, standing, running, and socializing. Then they were sheared. All of this was documented. The fleeces were processed together. From this yarn four knitted QR Codes were created, each linking the viewer to the sheep. This work relates what you are wearing to what wore it before you, who or what made it so that you could wear it. It was a slow moving day following the sheep, but that was the point. We live a life of instant gratification, with instant results, much like how QR Codes are scanned and information is attained. Capturing this slow process within second with a devise. Grip plays with the historically, slow and meticulous method of knitting with contemporary, instantly reproducible attained QR Codes. A viewer may not realize that these codes can be scanned and information can be gained. The idea that these codes hold a secret, without the “key” messages could never discovered, fascinates her…

Dot, Sammy, April, Sara from Forest Row Farm are hand knitted four QR Codes (Quick Response codes), representing four chapters, were made from four sheep: Dot, Sammy, April, and Sara, born and raised at Forest Row Farm.  The piece Dot, Sammy, April, Sara from Forest Row Farm, are four separate QR codes, each framed separately. They link to separate videos of each of the sheep. Here are links to the videos:

Dot: www.bit.ly/GG001

Sammy: www.bit.ly/GG002

April: www.bit.ly/GG003

Sara: www.bit.ly/GG007

Found on table that the videos of the four sheep was placed on.

This sweater was made with the yarn of the four sheep from Forest Row Farm: Dot, Sara, April and Sammy. Below is a video of Greta Grip knitting the sweater.