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| Knitters with No. 1, Mark Rothko in the background. |
On Friday, September 22, I joined a large group of women at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for "Knitting in the Galleries" a novel way of engaging with art. For about two hours, with casual oversight by two museum staffers, we sat, chatted and knitted, surrounded by an installation of Mark Rothko paintings.
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| Knitter communing with paintings. |
Unfortunately, the area given to the knitters was rather underlit and, as I brought dark-colored yarn, I moved to another spot, directly beneath a light, in the gallery. See me in the right hand edge of the image above, working on my Paris Toujours shawl? The better to devote myself to both knitting and that peculiar state of quiescent awareness which Rothko's work elicits.
Below is a brief video taken by my husband of the activity.
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| Another view of knitters at work. |
I also learned, from staffer Anne S., that it is perfectly acceptable for knitters to sit in the galleries at any time and work on their fiber projects.
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| Mulberry and Brown, 1958. |
