Nicola Vruwink: to You From Me Love, Nicola May 27, 2010

Nicola Vruwink's work involves organic forms constructed from crocheted cassette tape. The repetitive nature of crocheting provides a symmetry and order to the chaotic state of modern life and a sense of stillness amidst the disorder. Through the employment of humble, nearly obsolete materials and means, she examines the impermanence and temporal nature of our society, paced by technological advances, resulting in the disconnection of people and the ensuing loneliness of modern urban life. Perversely obsessive, Nicola desires to produce works of visual delight redolent of fantastic, even grotesque romanticism, steeped in nostalgia for the innocence of adolescence.