USA

Considered to be the mother of yarn bombing, Magda's 10 year body of work includes the widely recognized knitted/crocheted work over the world.

In the beginning, Magda decided to repair her department in Brooklyn. She decided to make a small alteration to enhance the visual experience of her home. So she crocheted a purple doorknob for the door. Unexpectedly, amazing things started to happen, every households in the community started to redecorate their own front door using crochet and wool; and the once deserted mail boxes, tree trunks and garbage cans were all wrapped into new and colorful objects.

So Magda started to craft more pretty works through this approach and incredible things followed: Magda started to have many fans in New York; most of them are housewives and old people staying at home most of the time; and there are also crafts lovers. Now Magda has more than a million followers on her Facebook and her working mode also keeps evolving.

The combination of textile materials and color can create a visual pleasure in an ordinary sense. But when the two meet real life objects, a kind of humor arises.

In the beginning, Magda just wrapped small items. Her daughter’s toy rifle, even though wrapped in colorful and warm wool, still exuding a smell of danger. And then, her work has evolved to include large scale installations around the world including commissions and collaborations with companies all over the world.

"My passion is with the material: I love displacing hand made, mostly knitted, material in environments where it seemingly doesn’t belong… only to discover that they can coexist quite harmoniously. I understand the limitations of this medium intimately, and I continue to challenge it. There is a transformation that occurs when I cover an inanimate object with soft hand made material. This interaction changes the object without taking away its identity or paralyzing its original function. It is this unplanned arrangement of the material that makes these objects come to life, become sculptural and even redefine or reinterpret a space. The exploration of environmental change drives me: provoking the world to be a more challenging, unconventional, and interesting place."