This is the second installation in the “Close Knit” artwork series.

10.5"x16" sheet acrylic

Decode "Close Knit, No. 1," and the rest will follow:

America's promise may tatter and fray

Qualities unraveling row after row

Her yearnings disguised in black, white and grey

Preserved within her causes' rainbow.

Like Emma's "New Colossus," read left to right

But one letter per line, speaks silent lips.

Our task is good trouble, to fight the good fight

Liberty's masses echo: save our ships.

About the work:

As our 250th anniversary approaches, we endure a time of forced and coerced quieting. Our arts are being quieted. Our scientists are being quieted. Our support systems, progress, underpinnings and communities are being quieted. Our very words are being quieted. Quieted, but never silenced. In this vein comes the coded artwork series, "Close Knit," an homage to the incredible spies who encoded critical messages into their knitting. Throughout history, women faded into the background while knitting away, never suspected of passing intel through the patterns in their craft. Here, I encoded a secret word into each acrylic artwork, within associated color themes. Each secret word pays respect to an American cause, a human cause, for which we need to bear our torches and keep liberty's flame alight. These are words and causes that are under the pillow of a silencing campaign, but their importance is never diminished. Our children, and the generations yet to come, are counting on us.

For more absolutely fascinating information about the history of knitting code: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/knitting-spies-wwi-wwii