Colossal: Lush, beguiling environments spill across floors and dangle from ceilings in the works of Melissa Webb. The artist dyes and crochets vintage fibers into mossy, botanical forms that when layered and stitched together, become enchanting installations evocative of forests and gardens. Shades of green tend to dominate the textile ecosystems as a nod to “growth, verdancy, and inevitable change,” Webb says.
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I WOULD LIKE TO LIVE HERE PLEASE! Ok general excitement aside, this is genuinely breathtaking. Like the fact that one person did this makes my head reel. As someone who crochets (not that well), this must have taken so freaking long and I am just astounded by the detail and time put into this. Art never ceases to amaze me and I would genuinely love to get to see this space in person and explore the sensory aspects that come along with it. I want to be able to make art as beautiful as this one day. Also the general vibe of this culmination of art is entirely matching my personality. I am an avid forest lover, so I love moss, trees, bushes, mushrooms etc. I am still just blown away by this especially since there are so many layers and it’s so impressive. If I could sleep in that bed, I think I would wake up and the world’s problems would disappear.
The work of Melissa Webb was so beautiful! Seeing “Lichenvision: Leaf Litter Living Room, Lakeside Home, and Zoom Date” was absolutely incredible. She is such a skilled crochet artist. I also crochet, but I have no clue how she did a lot of these stitches. This is such a time consuming process it is mind blowing how much surface area she was able to cover. One thing that I find super cool about her work is all the different textures she is able to achieve with just yarn. Some of it looks super stringy and thin like leaves and vines, while some of it looks very soft and thick like moss. The lace sort of patterns everywhere are so beautiful as well. I am sure this is partially due to the vintage, hand-dyed year that she uses, but she manipulates it so well. I thought it was cool that she takes inspiration from Frank Llyod Wright and it is clear in her art.
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