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KNOT, beyond the inevitable

The main concept of the knitted lightings started from the project ordinary objects can become something else.
I lived with my grandparents when I was little and my grandfather was a farmer. I used to see him making farming and house tools with his hands.
He did cutting, tying, carving with his hands. This has become very valuable and so this project is to see what the hands can do with everyday objects.
With full of ready-made and mass production today, I think works done by hands can bring new meanings and value to the ordinary things. The result can depend on my feelings, the use, and the surroundings.

Knot-beyond the inevitable series started because I believe that, like my grandfather and many years back in history, tying and making a knot is a human instinct. Humans invented many kinds of knots for survival like fishing, hunting, building houses, transporting things. Like the past, these instinct acts are still within us. It is passed down from our parents, from our ancestors and because it is inherited, the instinct can serve a meaning more than just a simple action. The ability to change or make things with my hands is the same ability that everyone possesses. I wish that with this ability, people become more active when looking at other people or objects.

I'm in search for the beauty in the value of memories that connect the past and the present provided by the human hand, beyond the pleasure of a precisely calculated form.
       
     
       
     
       
     

The biggest inspiration of this lighting is my mother's knitting hobbies during my childhood. Her knitted sweaters and gloves remind me of the good days of my childhood. I saw the neat pile of electric wires as yarns and soon decided to knit(weave) my own. Other than knitting with needles, I developed a new way of weaving the rubber but solid wires into long, scarf-like or brush-like form of lighting. They are weaved by one long wire which varies in length-from 10 to 300meters.

       
     
       
      Myself wearing knitted gifts from my mother
       
     
       
     
Altough it's made with a single long wire, It's not dangerous at all, like how many worry about, because I use low-watt bulb and have tested many times at factories with experts. The lightings are on going series.
       
     
      Sockets
       
       
     
       
       
       
       
       
     
       
      2009. 01
works for Gladstone (Marble Grey series)
       
     
       
      2009. 01
works for Gladstone (Marble Grey series)
       
     
       
      2009. 01
works for Gladstone (Marble Grey series)
       
     
       
      2009. 01
works for Gladstone (Marble Grey series)
       
     
       
      2009. 01
works for Gladstone (Marble Grey series)
       
     
       
      2009. 01
works for Gladstone (Marble Grey series)
       
     
       
      2009. 01
works for Gladstone (Marble Grey series)
       
     
       
      2009. 01
works for Gladstone (Marble Grey series)
       
     
       
      2008. 12
13.1 (Copper Brown edition)
       
     
       
      2008. 12
Marseilles (Black edition)
       
     
       
      2008. 12
Toronto (Navy edition)
       
     
       
     
       
      2008. 11
Stroke-full (Marble Grey edition)
       
     
       
      2008. 10
Root (Copper Brown edition)
       
     
       
      2008. 10
Piping Light (Copper Brown edition)
       
     
       
      2008. 10
Surfing Lightly (Navy edition)
       
     
       
      2008. 10
Multiply (Black edition)
       
     
       
     
       
      2008. 08
electric wire (Blue edition) - for MM
H1100 X W900(mm)
       
     
       
      2008. 02
electric wire (Coral edition series)
       
     
       
      2008. 02
electric wire (Special edition) - C+
H1800 X W2100(mm)
       
     
       
      2008. 02
electric wire (white edition) - Nesty
H2200 X W450(mm)
       
     
       
      2008. 02
electric wire (Blue edition series)
       
     
       
      2008. 02
electric wire (Blue edition) - Sigma
H2200 X W2000(mm)
       
     
       
      2008. 02
Dot series
       
     
       
      2008. 02
electric wire (Coral edition) - Mesh Bag
H1800 X W800(mm)
       
     
       
      2008. 01
electric wire (VCTF 2Core)
H1100 X W700(mm)
       
     
     
photographer Park Gunju / Monthly Design
      2007. 12
electric wire (Blue edition)
H800 X W2000(mm)
       
     
     
photographer Park Gunju / Monthly Design
     
      2007. 12
electric wire (Blue edition)
H3000 X W250(mm)		 2007. 12
electric wire (Blue edition) - Water fall
H2500 X W400(mm)
       
       
     
       
     
       
      2007. 09
electric wire (VCTF 2Core)
H1500 X W800(mm)
       
       
     
       
     
     
photographer Z Yohan
      2007. 08
electric wire (VCTF 2Core)
H2000 X W400(mm)
       
       
     
       
     
       
      2007. 04
electric wire (white)
H1100 X W400(mm)
       
       
     
       
     
       
      2007. 04
electric wire (black)
H2100 X W1200(mm)
       
       
     
       
     
       
      2007. 04
electric wire (white)
H1800 X W300(mm)
       
       
     
       
     

     
   

2007. 02
electric wire (brown)
H1200 X W170(mm)

     
     
   
     
   
     
    2007. 02
electric wire (white)
H200 X W200(mm)
     
     
   
     
   
     
    2006. 06
electric wire (red)
H3000 X W150(mm) 		2006. 08
electric wire (green)
H1800 X W370(mm)
     
     
feather  
     
   
   
     
   
   
     
   
     
    2007. 10
sculped a mass of styrofoam
H700 X W850 X D900(mm)
     
     
     
     
   
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