Magda Sayeg talks about how a knitted door handle changed the world.
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"Yarn bombing is when you take knitted or crocheted material out into the urban environment, graffiti-style (...) it means without permission and unsanctioned", says Magda. When she started, she didn't have any ambition in it. She wanted only to see something warm and fuzzy on the cold, steel things that she looked at every day. She wrapped the door handle into the knitted material.
Little did she know that it will change her life. After that, she started to looking for other places to wrap, so she wrapped the stop signal pole near her house. People were stunned - they used to park their cars and make photos of the wrapped sign. Magda wanted more, so she did the same thing for every sign in her neighbourhood. Then she started to think why people react so strongly to it and she discovered that in this overdeveloping world we want to see something relatable. She wanted to do it in a bigger scale so... She wrapped the bus.
After this incident she realised, that she may have started the yarn bombing, but she don't owns it anymore. People do it all around the world. Magda often travels to places that are wrapped into knitted material by other people.
At the end she encourages people to put down phones and controllers and try to do something with treir own hands.
Vocabulary:
Little did she know that it will change her life. After that, she started to looking for other places to wrap, so she wrapped the stop signal pole near her house. People were stunned - they used to park their cars and make photos of the wrapped sign. Magda wanted more, so she did the same thing for every sign in her neighbourhood. Then she started to think why people react so strongly to it and she discovered that in this overdeveloping world we want to see something relatable. She wanted to do it in a bigger scale so... She wrapped the bus.
After this incident she realised, that she may have started the yarn bombing, but she don't owns it anymore. People do it all around the world. Magda often travels to places that are wrapped into knitted material by other people.
At the end she encourages people to put down phones and controllers and try to do something with treir own hands.
Vocabulary:
enhance - to improve the quality, amount of something
- Training grammar will enhance your skills in English - you will be good at it!
- New equipment will enhance our earnings. We will earn more.
mundane - very ordinary and therefore not interesting
- Mundane things like going to work or paying bills do not excite me at all.
- Mommy! This day is so mundane! I am bored!
inanimate - having none of the characteristics that any of living creature has
- Toys are inanimate - they do not live.
- Even if you think you teddy bear has soul, it hasn't. It's inanimate.
insurmountable (problem) - so great that it can't be dealt with succesfully
- This problem is so insurmountable. I cannot deal with it by myself. Will you help me?
- Are you Polish? Because you can solve every insurmountable problem.
ponder - to think carefully about something, usually for a long time
- He stopped for a moment to ponder his next move. He had to consider it carefully.
- I am totally lost. I pondered for a while where to go, but I have no idea.
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