Knitting Sprawl is a cross-country art project exploring knitting, suburbia and community in Canada.  It is a large-scale collaboration that includes many components, including knitting, video, photography, and performance.  The work grows out of the series of organized meetings or “knit-togethers” that the artist attended with groups of people who knit in suburban communities across Canada, including Peterborough.  As the participants spend time with the artist and knit they have conversations about what life is like in their community, with a particular focus on the question: What is the center of our community? Through its multi-media approach and broad participation, Knitting Sprawl becomes a metaphor for the boundary-less, sprawling nature of our contemporary suburbs.

still from Luis Bunuel's Un Chien Andalou

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Thank you Paul Robert