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Friday, 24 September 2021

Teddy Bears' Picnic


For whatever reason, someone has taken it upon themselves to crochet a teddy bears' picnic and fitted it like a cap on top of the postbox on Victoria Road. It's quite cute and colourful and has been crafted with some skill. No doubt it will bring a smile to a lot of people, though it's well above child height so kids won't necessarily be able to see it. 

Call me a party pooper but I'm not sure I'm entirely in favour of the trend for yarn-bombing / fabric wrapping / guerrilla knitting. It's harmless in a way but it's graffiti in a different form and once that starts there's no end to it. One person's 'cute' is another person's 'tacky' or 'kitsch'....  I could not, however, let it go without a photo, since this kind of thing is very much part of our urban environment these days. 

4 comments:

  1. Some time ago a couple of artists completely wrapped the historic "Reichstag" in fabric. They did the same again in France. A bigger waste of money I simply cannot imagine.

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  2. That was Christo who wrapped the Reichstag as well as many other things but there is a difference between the yarn bombing and art. Cute image though.

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  3. While I have only seen one previous example of yarn bombing, this one was a cute one, Jenny. The late artist Christo seemed to have taken fabric bombing to lengths I never quite grasped. Seeing the Paris Arc covered in cloth was a perfect example of non-art to me as it was beautiful “as is.”

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  4. It used to happen more often here, but it's been years since I've seen it.

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