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Joana Vasconcelos is a Portuguese artist who creates really gorgeous handmade crochet covers for ordinary objects such as porcelain animals and statues. Ms. Vasconcelos uses her art as a tool to advance her political beliefs. Craftstylish notes, “Her work is also about democratizing objects… Today, there are objects… that anyone can appreciate as being cool and trendy. There are objects that have changed status in this way. Status of people—of objects—changes; it isn’t static. Things that are banal today might belong in high culture tomorrow.”  "The crochet pieces are great fun … because the viewer might think, ‘Gosh, that’s just like the crochet back at home, just like my Grandma’s or my Mum’s!’ Then they think, ‘Actually, it’s in bad taste. But I like it because I find in it a certain identity, something I recognize. It’s like what I have at home, but now I’m seeing it in an artistic context. So if it’s here, that means it’s good. Then why am I thinking it’s bad?"
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