Sangmin Oh has created sculptural forms of knitted yarns and light.
Together, through blending yarns, light and textiles can bring about magical stories. This coral reef knitting project is based on combining yarns that respond to light in different ways. The great beauty of textiles is in the many atmospheres, shapes, colors, harmonies, and effects that can be created through these unexpected yarn combinations together interacting with light.
Through collaboration with the Textile Museum, ‘Knitted Light’ looked to find out the sophisticated beauty of mixing textile materials through the technique of knitting. The thread called monofilament was selected, this has a reflective property, it produces a new texture when combined with light and mixed with various yarns. When the monofilaments meet flexible elastic yarns, the material shows a new type of formative fun of contraction and expansion, giving rise to various 3D-type knitting experiments.
