Ginny Crow

Body Installation
2025

Body Installation

Materials: Yarn, model skeleton, aluminum wire, jump rings, popsicle sticks, and mirror paint. 

April 2025



The ambiguity of the knitted organ forms reflects my aversion to looking at or thinking about human organs for too long. Researching and utilizing images from human autopsies and medical textbooks was a difficult process for me. Digging into this discomfort allowed me to harness my own disgust into visual expression. I see the human body as something simultaneously alien, nauseating, and inscrutable-a habitat for bacterial colonies, flesh, fluid, and me.


I created the brain by layering knit tubes, tacking the wrinkles down with colors picked from dissection photos.
My new studio assistant hard at work.
I learned simple chain metal patterns to create the wire figure. With the silver materials I hope to evoke electrical impulses.
The organs took numerous layers.
Head studio assistant examining our progress.
Figuring it all out?
I created the brain by layering knit tubes, tacking the wrinkles down with colors picked from dissection photos.
My new studio assistant hard at work.
I learned simple chain metal patterns to create the wire figure. With the silver materials I hope to evoke electrical impulses.
The organs took numerous layers.
Head studio assistant examining our progress.
Figuring it all out?
I created the brain by layering knit tubes, tacking the wrinkles down with colors picked from dissection photos.
My new studio assistant hard at work.
I learned simple chain metal patterns to create the wire figure. With the silver materials I hope to evoke electrical impulses.
The organs took numerous layers.
Head studio assistant examining our progress.
Figuring it all out?
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