Hungarian self-taught artist Katerina Penzina creates three-dimensional, saturated crochet paintings. She began her project back in 2014 and since then she has created many colorful portraits of both ordinary and famous people. Penzina also made a series of crocheted emojis, a palpable representation of pictographs.
“By turning digital images into tangible art objects I transform the language of pictograms, which sometimes substitutes natural languages, into the category of the modern cultural symbols,” the artist shared on Bored Panda. “Pixels become yarn stitches and emojis themselves instead of being images to be selected with just one click become an object, and a lot of effort is required in order to create it.”
She spent more than 300 hours doing this project which was first presented at Art Miami week in 2019. If you are interested to see her emojis, check out the gallery below. You can also follow her on Instagram for more amazing images.
