Knit Your Home - Unravel Your Memories
2011 - Present

Portable Memories - Wearable House No. 1
Yamin Street, Misri Shah, Lahore, Pakistan (Outside walled city of Lahore).

Material

Wool (synthetic, cotton), wire, bamboo sticks.
This artwork is an extension of previously made house no.1. This time it conveys its experiential embodiment of spatial memories — carried in its soul and transferred onto generations.

Though the artist has never experienced this house physically rather, has witnessed it merely as a spectator.

In the quest of this house hidden treasure, the artist has tried to decode its tangibility, while crocheting it in a larger version. Hence, one can become a part of this house, amidst wearing it and re-transcript one's own memories.
While scaling up this piece of art, its creator has experienced different challenges unlike its original version.

Many details are surfaced, which need to be handled within the material's constraint; wool characteristics.

Hierarchical floors are better envisioned and applied on this scale. Likewise, the difference between ground and first floors' spaciousness is better represented, in contrast to maisonette floor; which is rather squeezed in between them. This expression of varied scale represents those fears of its inhabitants — created through the dark low roof of maisonette rooms and closed windows.

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Portable Memories - Wearable House No. 1

Yamin Street, Misri Shah, Lahore, Pakistan (Outside walled city of Lahore).

Material

Wool (synthetic, cotton), wire, bamboo sticks.
This artwork is an extension of previously made house no.1. This time it conveys its experiential embodiment of spatial memories — carried in its soul and transferred onto generations.
Though the artist has never experienced this house physically rather, has witnessed it merely as a spectator.
In the quest of this house hidden treasure, the artist has tried to decode its tangibility, while crocheting it in a larger version. Hence, one can become a part of this house, amidst wearing it and re-transcript one's own memories.
While scaling up this piece of art, its creator has experienced different challenges unlike its original version.
Many details are surfaced, which need to be handled within the material's constraint; wool characteristics.
Hierarchical floors are better envisioned and applied on this scale. Likewise, the difference between ground and first floors' spaciousness is better represented, in contrast to maisonette floor; which is rather squeezed in between them. This expression of varied scale represents those fears of its inhabitants — created through the dark low roof of maisonette rooms and closed windows.

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