Influences for this piece:
-Deana Lawson photography
-Renell Medrano’s photography
-Jenn Nkiru videography
-Gwendolyn Brooks poetry
-For Keeps Bookstore !
Use of color, realistic imagery of everyday life, and raw emotion within Lawson and Medrano’s photography
Take my own image
Create a chart guide and color pallette through chartminder & photoshop
Choose yarns and do tension swatches
Knit the image with designaknit
Write a small narrative.
Knit writing in chosen format
First: Original Photograph
Middle: Image in Chart Minder with color
indexed; Made for Intarsia
Last: Posterized image done in Photoshop;
Made for Design-A-Knit Software