From metal and wool comes wire and thread
Then yarn, then a figure, then a world up ahead A wire-yarn world, this seems bizarre Inhabited by creatures, things calling themselves ‘Garnar’ They’re wire and yarn too, is this all in my head “Nope, it’s a home away from home”, a faint voice said A little red figure, did that come from you “People call me Yarny, and yeah, I’m made of it too” Where did you come from, “Originally a game Made by a Swedish man, Martin Sahlin by name But I myself am a replica, made by a loving fan The game had inspired him and he made a whole clan” A clan of yarn figures, a fan artist’s trade But what is this little world that they’ve made “Gangalden, they call it, a world that they dream Made of wire and yarn, I’m sure you see a theme” “They know that world could never be real So they do their best to work out a deal They love the wilderness, but without all its harm So they create it themselves, in a sort of kitsch charm” Sounds like something I might have done years ago “Everyone likes to feel safe, you know” True, but is it really safe for the Garnar “So long as they remember where they really are” |
After watching a playthrough of the game Unravel, I became entranced by this little figure made wire and yarn; so hooked that I wanted to make a yarn figure for myself. After that first one, Threadwick, I was set on creating more of them for the rest of my foreseeable future.
The standard practice for me is a figure, a corresponding patch, then photographing them somewhere in the world. But going into senior year of college, it became evident that this alone wouldn't be enough. For this, I decided to create the environment out of wire and yarn too. After several months, a whole world and race began to develop and are now known as the Garnar of Gangalden (singular, Garnarel), a play off the Swedish words 'garn varelser' (yarn beings) and 'gängade världen' (threaded world). |