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Knitta, please cover those ugly blue signs on Lamar underpass

I'd written before about the group Knitta Please! and the challenge that knitted graffiti poses to distinctions between graffiti and art, craft, etc.. So I was pleased to drive down Lamar last week and see knitted coverings of a bunch of odd, supposedly artistic blue metal signs with no messaging that line an underpass around 5th Street. Here's a photo from the Austin Eavesdropper:And here's an East Austin lamppost covered in argyle:In this case the knitting was legal, commissioned art. Says the Eavesdropper, "Magda Sayeg, who created the knit sleeves above, is one of Art City Austin's commissioned artists." Sayeg is affiliated with Knitta Please! But this is an example of illegal art achieving mainstream acceptance, akin philosophically to hiring graffiti artists to paint murals and signage...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 10, 2010 (boomark / email).