Iben Høj Aurora borealis

Knit sculpture suspended from a sinuous acrylic rod. The shimmering fabric incorporates extremely fine-gauge strands, including a fibre with glow-in-the-dark properties that is charged in daylight and subsequently emits light for a limited period of time. The work was created using hand-operated knitting machines. The large size required the use of several machines at once in an elaborate process where the thread was carefully moved from one thread guide to the next. The yarn is made of up to seven different strands, which makes it possible to gradually change the colour of individual threads to achieve the desired shimmering effect in a process that Høj describes as 'painting with fibres’. The finished work incorporates more than 50 different fibres. Materials Threads and yarn made of viscose, polyamide, polyester, monofil and other fibres Dimensions.