The Knit Garden: a Collection of Anatomically Correct Plants.
Using live plants, botanical drawing and plant textbooks as information, these knit objects depict real and recognizable floral forms. The process of knitting, stitch by stitch, mimics the growth of an actual plant, cell by cell.
See the Passionflower featured in a Brown News Service article.
Brown University List Art Center
Providence, Rhode Island
February 2005
Providence, Rhode Island
February 2005
Left: Close up of the Water Lily.
Right: Anatomically Correct Passionflower- in full bloom.
Right: Anatomically Correct Passionflower- in full bloom.
Left: Close up of Carrot flowers. Center: Hibiscus. Right: Evening Primrose in the rain. The blue droplets are made of glass and yarn.
Above: Decaying Rosehips. Right: Close up of the 9 foot Peace Lily.
Left: This picture shows the scale of the plants. Below: The waterbug is slowly eating the water lily leaf. The yarn from the leaf is unraveling into his mouth.
all images © 2008 Tatyana Yanishevsky
Right: Dacus Carota: Wild Carrot, flying through the air.