Why have male artists often been more successful than female artists ? I think one reason is that men can be more comfortable using many people’s energy for their ideas . Woman can fall into caretaking everyone in the group . This drains a woman’s energy instead of building it . Men can sometimes drain the group for themselves . This makes for big projects and miserable groups. I know that it is possible for a group to build a strong , exciting energy that inspires everyone and doesn’t exploit anyone . I’m thinking about how to do this for my large streetart installations .
When I started yarnbombing I really didn’t want to have a crew . I wanted to make art that was about my own fun – not about how supportive could I be to everyone else . I wanted to be known as Streetcolor , I wanted to get some anonymous fame . Later I joined with The Russian and I found working with a partner made me more daring and got me to yarnbomb every week. And it was more fun to yarnbomb with someone . If I could resist thinking I had to take care of her .
After I had fully satisfied my needs for attention I started to have new needs. I needed to make really big installations that I could do with a museum and I persuaded The Oakland Museum Of California through The Oakland Standard to let me yarnbomb their building. This installation is taking 6 knitters for the inside and over 18 for the outside . I’m really enjoying this bigger energy-everyone having fun as one – everyone supported by art.
Yarnbombing has taught me that the whole world is an art gallery . I have been looking at chain link fences for years wanting to bead them . I started beading these fences a few weeks ago near my home . I like the contrast of the coarse barren metal with the shining delicate beads ,you have to come close to the fence to see all the beauty of beads . Now I want to cover the whole world with beads.
Streetcolor 
I LOVE how this looks. It reminds me of drops of water in a spider’s web. LOVELY!
OMG! The fences look amazing!!
The beaded fences are amazing! What a great idea!
It must be fun to see this fence in different lights.
Forgot to tell you, saw the Oakland Museum page devoted to yarnbombing and your project there. This must be exciting for you.
http://museumca.org/theoaklandstandard/yarn-bombing
How do you do this? I have an very tall ugly chain-link fence near my house, and I’m gradually covering it with 2×5 knitted patches. But I LOVE the beads! How do you get the beads on?