When did knitting become an artform? I mean I know there are some really cool knitted works, and like yarn bombing is pretty cool.

But the knitted mile? I dont know if I can classify that actual work as an artwork - but I suppose since there are other knitters involved it could be some sort of compilation work or performance art?
I should tell that to my grandmother...
It looks really warm at least.

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It's an artform that I could do though so maybe I shouldn't be complaining about it - I should just not finish my scarves when I make them and instead keep going  - will that make me famous? Celebrity lifestyle as a result from knitting? I'm on it.

When I first saw the work of Jason Mclean I immediatly thought of some kind of surrealist work.

Jason Mclean "Rosehips and Bullwhips"

His style is obviously much looser and free than the early famous surrealists, but something about it just connects in my mind - perhaps the mass amounts of hidden symbolism. I feel like Jason Mclean poors his entire story into his drawings, everything that is on his mind at any given time. Rosehips, elephants, clowns, big ears, captains, B.C.. Who really can understand the way that anyone thinks? I know sometimes I will be talking to my best friends and have to stop for a second just because I have no idea how the conversation got to where it was or where either of our minds just took it - but I know it went somewhere very very weird. Like peanuts to everest to arkansas butler trade. Who really knows?

Max Ernst "L'Ange du Foyeur"