Orisoun

Published in Pom Pom Quarterly Issue 43: Winter 2022

Hilma af Klint saw herself as a conduit for a divine spirt and expressed this spirit’s messages through her work. Her early paintings evoke prismatic geometric shapes, revealing the multitude of colors in ordinary light and reflecting Klint’s view of herself as a kind of prism capable of transformation.

Orisoun is worked from the bottom up in the round. Two rows of the repeating color work motif are worked using ladderback jacquard. This method creates a mesh on the wrong side of the work that helps to manage tension over long gaps between color changes and keeps the floats completely invisible from the right side. Lifted increases secure the bottom of the mesh just above the brim, and decreases are worked at the end of the color work section to complete the mesh.