Guerrilla knitting attacks Mexico City
MexicoReporter | Nov 12, 2008 | Comments 2
Magda Seyeg is a Texan artist who tags – but not with graffiti. She and her collective of guerrilla knitters – who you can touch base with at KnittaPlease.com – place knitted stuff on door handles, park benches, statues, lamp posts and virtually anything else standing in the street.
This week, Seyeg hit the streets of Mexico City to do one of her biggest jobs yet – wrapping a bus in her trademark knitted tags. Here’s some photo evidence, and watch this space for a video-profile of the artist coming real soon…..
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[...] As we hinted at earlier in the week, guerrilla-knitter Magda Sayeg of KnittaPlease.com hit the streets of Mexico City to take on her biggest challenge yet. It was her task to cover an entire bus with knitting, as is her style, and we caught up with her just as she was completing her task. [...]
[...] As we hinted at earlier in the week, guerrilla-knitter Magda Sayeg of KnittaPlease.com hit the streets of Mexico City to take on her biggest challenge yet. It was her task to cover an entire bus with knitting, as is her style, and we caught up with her just as she was completing her task. [...]