Andrea Burgay
Granny Squares, 2024
11 x 8.25 x .25” in.
Collage/decollage of magazine pieces on layered pages

"Granny Squares,' from my 'Fictions: Periodicals' series, is a crochet magazine that has undergone a process of tearing apart, layering, and reassembling. The photographic imagery allows me to blur the boundary between image and object, inviting viewers to move between reading it as actual yarn or as fragments of yarn photographs. I call these works image-objects: readable as paintings, yet physical as sculptural forms.

I am drawn to knitting and crochet books from the 1970s and ’80s, as well as other craft publications. These were magazines that surrounded me as a child, and I was captivated not only by their colors and patterns, but also by the sense of possibility they offered — the idea that you could create almost anything from the simple materials listed. Revisiting them allows me to transform these memories back into the very material from which they were made."
A.B.

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