Philadelphia-based artist Caitlin McCormack uses crochet to create skeletal looking creatures. Her eerie (and sometimes creepy) looking objects clash against the soft materials, creating powerful and thought-provoking pieces of art.
McCormack works from her studio in South Philly, where she lives with her two cats. Her website states that she “crochets to forget the world, in the chaos of her slovenly, nest-like studio.”
Her bone-like materials are made from discarded textile materials, covered with enamel paint. She then crochets them into skeletons of animals, humans, and sometimes even fantastic creatures such as a two-headed bat. Her creations are then placed in glass cases, that call to mind old time specimens.
Under her crafted hands, the endearing hobby of crochet is made somewhat bleak. By using a technique inherited from her family members, McCormack says she “aim[s] to generate emblems of my diminishing bloodline, embodied by each organism’s skeletal remains.”
Check out some of her curious creations.
