Barb Hunt

Barb Hunt knits replicas of antipersonnel land mines in various shades of pink wool, which have been inspired by protests against land mines. She investigates how knitting and pinkness can provide coziness and a sense of home but with the antipathy of war. She always relates knitting to caring for the body; bandages and hand knit socks for soldiers aboard.

I find her collection very moving and I find that it can ponder the sheer inventiveness of this kind of human evil by the way that we create such an array of civilian-killing devices along with this position of the meaning of using a cuddly medium with a feminine pink colour.