IT happens under the cover of night and its devotees insist it is art.
A light pole in Barrack Lane in Parramatta’s CBD was guerrilla yarn-bombed - decorated with a knitted bunch of red, pink and orange blooms and a tag reading “smell the roses”.
It is among the first guerrilla knitting acts in Sydney since the practice emerged as a new street art in Britain about three years ago.
Parramatta City Council said it would not tear the knitting down, although it is technically illegal under its own policy.
The bright blooms even softened hardline anti-graffiti councillor Michael McDermott.
“It’s harmless, it’s not doing any damage to council property and it looks quite neat,” he said,
“It’s urban art that puts a smile on people’s faces. I’m not going to be a grinch about it.”
Two mystery female knitters are believed to be behind the blooms - looping together a 30cm “pole-warmer” of recycled yarn around a light pole in a laneway - to remind people to smell the roses.
“It’s a busy laneway in the mornings and you don’t expect to see something like this,” she said.
“I think it’s amazing, it’s different, it’s beautiful and it’s not graffiti, it’s art.
“We should have more of it.”
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
