Alien Surfaces


Alien Surfaces 1
Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.

Hurrah! the show is open daily for the month of August!

I'm completely puggled as my grandmother used to say - i.e. worn out. As well as setting up the exhibition, I've now up dated my website with the images and have created a print on demand account at Imagekind where you can buy copies of the purely digital work. You can read more about the background to the exhibition on both sites but nothing beats a visit to the show in real life.

Come along to Transreal Fiction, 7 Cowgatehead, by the Grassmarket, Edinburgh and see the knitted model of the planet in Christopher Priest's Inverted World. I'm really grateful to Mike at Transreal for accommodating this piece as it's much bigger than orignially planned and has had to go in the window. Many thanks also to Hugh Griffiths of Geeks with Pointy Sticks for his help in writing the pattern at the beginning of this project and to Fawns Reid at Fabhatrix for supplying the wire to help it stand up yesterday!

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  1. Emano2 August 2008 at 20:20

    I assume you have seen the Home of Mathematical Knitting, then-- but in case you haven't:
    http://tiny.cc/Gq86E

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  2. MadeleineS6 August 2008 at 23:31

    Thanks emano. I have been a fan of Sarah-Marie Belcastro's work since I worked on the Maths Year 2000 Scotland team. she's pretty cool.

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