Experimental Knitting Portraits by Petros Vrellis

Petros Vrellis combines his technological background with arts by exploring the potential of new media through digital art and interactive installations. He created a new project explores a completely new way to knit, a few thousand meters of continuous black thread are knitted as straight lines to draw portraits.

The knitting is done by hand, on a primitive circular loom; a few thousand meters of continuous black thread are knitted as straight lines across the circumference, in a pattern dictated by a specially designed algorithm. Note that there is a lot of computing involved in the process of making, but, the final artwork carries absolutely no technology.

Although any digital picture can be converted to a knitting pattern of this type, portraits are the most interesting themes. Despite the extreme limitations of the design, the depicted faces are still recognizable, but inevitably appear fuzzy and smudged; a large degree of uncertainty about the characteristics and the emotions of the depicted persons is inducted.

Available here: saatchiart.com/vrellis