Penny Richards
Streaming
Crocheted panel, streamers, fabric, and ribbon attached to wheelchair.
40” x 20” x 72”. 2020.
Website: www.pennamite.wordpress.com/
California, USA
VO by Mari Weiss
Crocheted panel, streamers, fabric, and ribbon attached to wheelchair.
40” x 20” x 72”. 2020.
Website: www.pennamite.wordpress.com/
California, USA
VO by Mari Weiss
ABOUT THE ARTWORK:
"Streaming” (2020) is a crocheted and mixed-media piece that is activated when attached to a moving wheelchair on a windy day. The longest streamers are six feet long, illustrating recommended social distance during the COVID crisis. The streamers fly free, chaotic and colorful, countering the quiet, tedious, predictable life we have lived this year in our lockdown. All materials were in our home when lockdown began. Some of the streamers have events written on them, holidays and other milestones that passed during this time.
BIO:
Penny L. Richards, PhD is a Research Assistant Professor affiliated with the Department of History and the Center for Disability Studies at University at Buffalo. She is also a full time carer living in Redondo Beach, California, and enjoys the challenge and fun of making things for, and having adventures with, her adult son, Jake Turley. Her project for OM 2020 was created with company and encouragement from Yarn Bombing Los Angeles, South Bay Drunken Knitters, Catch a Wave Crafters, The Knitting Tree LA, and Beach Cities Fibre Arts.
Penny L. Richards, PhD is a Research Assistant Professor affiliated with the Department of History and the Center for Disability Studies at University at Buffalo. She is also a full time carer living in Redondo Beach, California, and enjoys the challenge and fun of making things for, and having adventures with, her adult son, Jake Turley. Her project for OM 2020 was created with company and encouragement from Yarn Bombing Los Angeles, South Bay Drunken Knitters, Catch a Wave Crafters, The Knitting Tree LA, and Beach Cities Fibre Arts.
DESCRIPTION:
Streaming
Six-foot-long orange, pink, magenta and lavender ribbons flutter from the top edge of a crocheted panel affixed to the back of a heavy duty stroller near its handles. The panel has wide blue and pale green stripes.
In the short video, a young man with medium length sandy hair, a mustache, and bushy eyebrows sits in the chair as the wind rushes past him and furls the streamers out behind and around him. He wears a red sweatshirt and black and white pajama pants, and he waves his arms in the air along with the wind. Directly behind him is a concrete and bronze statue of a figure with its back to us. In the distance, people pass on a beachfront boardwalk.
-descriptions by Teri Grossman and A. Laura Brody
Six-foot-long orange, pink, magenta and lavender ribbons flutter from the top edge of a crocheted panel affixed to the back of a heavy duty stroller near its handles. The panel has wide blue and pale green stripes.
In the short video, a young man with medium length sandy hair, a mustache, and bushy eyebrows sits in the chair as the wind rushes past him and furls the streamers out behind and around him. He wears a red sweatshirt and black and white pajama pants, and he waves his arms in the air along with the wind. Directly behind him is a concrete and bronze statue of a figure with its back to us. In the distance, people pass on a beachfront boardwalk.
-descriptions by Teri Grossman and A. Laura Brody
Opulent Mobility by A. Laura Brody is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
The Opulent Mobility license refers to the exhibit and its audio descriptions. Individual artworks are the property of the individual artists.