Vancouver used to have a wonderful agricultural fair every summer. It still has a fair, but the current incarnation lacks the diversity and heart of the older version that involved more individuals and fewer corporations. One aspect of the old show, was an annual crafts fair and competition, and one year I was overwhelmed by the beauty of some petit point I saw. It was a large completely black base on which were stitched eight miniaturized versions of Amish quilts. The tiny, perfect stitches celebrated the beautiful, simple patterns of classic Amish quilts. What took me by surprise was that it was done by a man: a prisoner in the British Columbia penitentiary.
I thought of him later in my life when I read about one of the world’s leading sweater knitters and innovators who is a man. And today, I found a website (courtesy of the Presurfer blog, that again made me think about men who use media that I think of as highly feminized as their chosen form of expression. The Presurfer post was about Ed Bing Lee, who knits sculptures. His site is divided into different sections. The illustration above is from his “Delectables” series. Check out all of the different series as they are all quite different and reveal the various ways MR. Lee uses his medium.
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