Penny Richards
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Rolling Rainbow, 2017
45” x 32” x 45”
Yarnbombed wheelchair with an exuberant, colorful, textured appearance
Website: www.pennamite.wordpress.com/
California, USA
Image by Penny Richards
VO by Mari Weiss
45” x 32” x 45”
Yarnbombed wheelchair with an exuberant, colorful, textured appearance
Website: www.pennamite.wordpress.com/
California, USA
Image by Penny Richards
VO by Mari Weiss
ARTIST NOTE:
My kid deserves a completely unique and exuberant wheelchair. So I'm yarnbombing a plain black spare wheelchair with absolutely no personality into something full of color and texture and convenient upgrades (like pockets!) and fun extras (like jingle bells and mirrors and beads), with crochet, hand sewing, and embroidery, mostly using secondhand materials. I work on it a lot in public, at school events and knitting circles, so I get a chance to talk about mobility and craft a lot. We're calling it the Rolling Rainbow while it's in progress. We'll use it at Halloween and probably in parades too.
-Penny Richards
-Penny Richards
DESCRIPTION
Rolling Rainbow:
A black push wheelchair is adorned with colorful crocheted yarn. Some of the yarn is smooth and even, some has wispy, silky threads that extend from it.
The spokes of the wheels are covered with concentric circles of yellow, orange, pink, red, blue and green. The back and seat are of horizontal bands of repeated colors: orange, yellow, green, turquoise, blue, purple. The arm rests are purple adorned on the underside with pink and blue beads. The foot rest is made of multicolored squares with a row of various size and colors of buttons along their centers. The hand brake handles have bright orange knit caps. More crocheted squares wrap around the brace under the arm rest, and the crocheted flap hanging off the front edge of the chair has beads and bells on the bottom.
-audio description by Teri Grossman
A black push wheelchair is adorned with colorful crocheted yarn. Some of the yarn is smooth and even, some has wispy, silky threads that extend from it.
The spokes of the wheels are covered with concentric circles of yellow, orange, pink, red, blue and green. The back and seat are of horizontal bands of repeated colors: orange, yellow, green, turquoise, blue, purple. The arm rests are purple adorned on the underside with pink and blue beads. The foot rest is made of multicolored squares with a row of various size and colors of buttons along their centers. The hand brake handles have bright orange knit caps. More crocheted squares wrap around the brace under the arm rest, and the crocheted flap hanging off the front edge of the chair has beads and bells on the bottom.
-audio description by Teri Grossman
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