Joana Vasconcelos’ Impressively Crocheted Statue and Painting

Do you know how to cro­chet? If so, good for you! (I am very bad at it.) Joana Vas­con­ce­los is very adept at this craft, and uses it to cov­er cement stat­ues and as the basis for paintings.

Dain­ty-look­ing cro­chet cov­ers an oth­er­wise nude woman, adding not only mod­esty but reli­gious over­tones as well. Vas­con­ce­los impres­sive­ly forms the dec­o­ra­tive net­ting and dol­lies to strate­gic parts of the wom­an’s body.

This paint­ing, com­posed with­in an ornate gold frame, bursts out of its con­fines and towards the view­er. Vas­con­ce­los cre­ates abstract forms that read as a liv­ing organ­ism, like a coral reef on the ocean floor.