WEBVTT 00:00.933 --> 00:04.866 JOE HAMMEL -- JO HAMILTON TAKES HER GRANDMOTHER'S LESSONS AND 00:05.000 --> 00:07.999 CHANNELS THEM INTO HER ART. HAMILTON TURNED AN ACTIVITY 00:08.133 --> 00:10.765 THAT'S OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH AN OLDER GENERATION INTO A FUN, 00:10.900 --> 00:14.432 HIP, COLORF ACTIVITY BY PUTTING A FACE TO A BALL OF 00:14.566 --> 00:17.065 YARN. 00:19.967 --> 00:30.599 THIS IS JO HAMILTON'S STUDIO. IT'S PARADISE IN HERE. 00:30.800 --> 00:33.433 IT'S FILLED WITH YARN. YARN OF EVERY COLOR YOU CAN 00:33.567 --> 00:37.399 THINK OF. 00:38.267 --> 00:40.666 ♪♪ 00:42.400 --> 00:45.866 SHE USES ALL THIS YARN TO CROCHET STUFF. 00:46.000 --> 00:54.166 THAT'S WHAT SHE DOES. CROCHETS, ALL DAY LONG. 01:01.434 --> 01:06.366 HOW DID YOU LEARN TO DO THAT? MYELOGRAM TAUGHT ME WHEN 01:08.100 --> 01:10.799 MY GRAM TAUGHT ME WHEN I WAS ABOUT SIX YEARS OLD. 01:10.934 --> 01:13.799 THE FIRST THING I LEARNED TO CROCHET IS A GRANNY SQUARE WHICH 01:13.934 --> 01:18.798 I WOULD SAY IS THE MOST COMN SEEN PATTERN IN CROCHET. 01:18.933 --> 01:22.233 IF YOU KNOW HOW TO MAKE A GRANNY SQUARE, THEN YOU CAN PRETTY MUCH 01:22.367 --> 01:27.698 MAKE ANYTHING. ONE DAY, JO GOT A BIG IDEA. 01:27.833 --> 01:31.500 SHE TOOK SOME YARN AND HER HOOK AND BEGAN TO CROCHET SOMETHING 01:31.633 --> 01:34.500 THAT NO ONE HAD EVER TRIED BEFORE. 01:34.633 --> 01:41.065 SHE STARTED TO CROCHET A LANDSCAPE OF PORTLAND. 01:42.699 --> 01:49.665 ♪♪ 01:51.033 --> 01:53.466 THIS BROWN STRIPE HERE REPRESENTS BURNSIDE. 01:53.601 --> 01:56.965 ALL THE BLUES ACROSS HERE REPRESENTS THE RIVER. 01:57.100 --> 02:02.965 THE BIG PINK, CITY HALL, THE HAWTHORNE BRIDGE, BROADWAY, AS I 02:03.100 --> 02:06.032 ENVISIONED IT. STEEL BRIDGE. 02:06.167 --> 02:11.099 THE CONVENTION CENTER. ONE GRANNY SQUARE FROM MY GRAND, 02:11.234 --> 02:14.932 WHICH I TURNED INTO A LITTLE BUILDING. 02:15.066 --> 02:19.433 AT THE TIME I WAS WORKING ON IT WAS WHEN A LOT OF BUILDINGS WERE 02:19.568 --> 02:23.799 GOING UP IN NORTHWEST PORTLAND SO THERE WERE JUST CRANES 02:23.933 --> 02:32.999 EVERYWHERE. THE PIECES ARE MEANT TO BE MORE 02:33.133 --> 02:35.533 OLD-SCHOOL. ESTABLISHED PORTLAND, LOTS OF 02:35.668 --> 02:38.899 TREES, VICTORIAN, KIND OF WARMER, MORE NATURAL COLORS AS 02:39.033 --> 02:45.132 OPPOSED TO THE KIND OF NEW BRASH SIGHT OF PORTLAND AS IT'S BEING 02:45.267 --> 02:48.633 BUILT. I WAS WORKING IN A RESTAURANT, 02:48.766 --> 02:52.667 AND MY C CORKERS, I HAD SHOWN THEM WHAT I WAS DOING, THE START 02:52.800 --> 02:56.932 OF THE CITYSCAPE WHEN IT WAS STILL ONLY A COUPLE OF FEET, AND 02:57.067 --> 03:02.200 THEY WERE GOOD-NATUREDLY MAKING FUN OF ME FOR CROTCHETING 03:02.334 --> 03:04.999 PORTLAND. YOU'LL CROCHET ALL THE WAY TO -- 03:05.133 --> 03:10.366 THAT SORT OF THING. AS A JOKE I SAID, SHUT UP OR 03:10.501 --> 03:18.266 I'LL CROCHET YOU. AND THAT'S JUST WHAT SHE DID. 03:18.401 --> 03:21.266 BY NOW, JO KNEW SHE HAD CROSSED THE LINE. 03:21.401 --> 03:24.899 E WAS USING HER GRANDMA'S TRADITIONAL CRAFT TO MAKE FINE 03:25.033 --> 03:29.166 ART. YOU KNOW, I BEGAN TO REALIZE 03:29.301 --> 03:33.765 THAT REALLY I COULD PRETTY MUCH CROCHET ANYTHING. 03:33.900 --> 03:38.233 NO LIMITATIONS, AND I COULD GET AMAZING LIKENESSES, NOT JUST 03:38.367 --> 03:44.132 LIKENESSES OF PEOPLE BUT REALLY CAPTURE PEOPLE'S SPIRIT IN YARN 03:44.267 --> 03:50.899 IN A WAY THAT EVEN KIND OF STILL AMAZES ME. 03:51.033 --> 03:56.400 THIS IS THE AMISH TURK.K. HE WAS A CHEF AT THE RESTAURANT 03:56.534 --> 04:02.600 WHERE I WORKED. THIS IS COREY HOPPER, ANOTHER 04:02.733 --> 04:11.032 CHEF. THIS IS MY FRIEND, BRIAN ADAMS 04:11.167 --> 04:12.466 HARTFORD. 04:16.167 --> 04:22.266 THIS IS SHREDDY, AKA ERIN, WHO WAS DISHWASHER AT THE 04:22.400 --> 04:30.633 RESTAURANT. THIS IS JEVON WHO WAITED TABLES 04:30.767 --> 04:36.432 WITH ME. THIS IS A PORTRAIT OF GRANT WHO 04:36.567 --> 04:43.099 WAS A WAITER. HE WAS A REALLY GOOD SUBJECT. 04:43.234 --> 04:46.366 I KIND OF REALLY LIKE THE EXPRESSION ON THIS ONE. 04:46.500 --> 04:53.932 LITTLE HALF SMILE. AND HIS BLUE HAIR. 04:54.067 --> 04:58.799 THIS IS LISA. SHE WAS A OST AND SERVER. 04:58.933 --> 05:03.799 SHE HAS A LOT OF HAIR. 05:07.467 --> 05:12.066 THIS IS MY SELF-PORTRAIT. IT ENDED UP BEING A REALLY 05:12.200 --> 05:19.266 STRANGELY FAST PIECE THAT ONLY TOOK A LITTLE OVER A WEEK. 05:21.334 --> 05:26.666 WHENEVER I START A PORTRAIT, I ALWAYS START WITH THE LEFT EYE. 05:26.801 --> 05:29.800 I START RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LEFTYE WITH THE PUPIL 05:29.934 --> 05:34.800 SURROUNDED BY THE IRIS. AND THEN BUILD IT OUT FROM 05:34.934 --> 05:36.800 THERE. THE REASON IT WORKS REALLY WELL 05:36.934 --> 05:40.833 WITH CROCHET IS BECAUSE I CAN CHANGE DIRECTION ANYTIME I WANT. 05:40.967 --> 05:45.966 AND IF YOU KNOW HOW TO CROCHET, YOU CAN SEE WHAT I AM DOING BY 05:46.100 --> 05:49.666 THE DIRECTION OF THE STITCHES. SO ANYTIME YOU SEE A LINE IN 05:49.801 --> 05:52.999 CROCHET, THAT IS THE DIRECTION THAT I'M GOING IN. 05:53.134 --> 05:58.466 I BASICALLY CIRCLE THE EYE, AND THAT GIVES ME THE STRUCTURE OF 05:58.600 --> 06:01.399 THE EYE SOCKET. AND THEN BEL THAT, THE 06:01.534 --> 06:04.133 CHEEKBONES, AND THEN USUALLY I'LL DO THE OTHER EYE AND THEN 06:04.267 --> 06:08.166 FIGURE OUT WHAT I NEED TO DO IN THE MIDDLE TO JOIN THEM. 06:08.301 --> 06:12.433 IT REALLY MAKES ME LAUGH SOMETIMES WHEN I SEE THE GLINT 06:12.567 --> 06:16.599 IN SOMEBODY'S EYE THAT I KNOW IS THERE IN REAL LIFE. 06:16.734 --> 06:23.766 OR SOMEBODY WHO IS SURLY, I'VE GOT THEIR EXPRESSION. 06:23.900 --> 06:30.032 I'M SURE A LOT OF CRAFTERS ARE HORRIFIED BY WHAT I DO. 06:30.166 --> 06:38.065 RULES ARE THERE TO BE BROKEN, AS ANY ARTIST KNOWS. 06:38.200 --> 06:43.432 I GET A LOT OF E-MAILS FROM PEOPLE SAYING I'VE BEEN 06:43.566 --> 06:47.165 CROTCHETING FOR 40 YEARS, AND I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE 06:47.300 --> 06:51.632 THIS, AND IT'S REALLY AMAZING AND I'M REALLY INSPIRED, AND 06:51.767 --> 06:54.465 THAT'S REALLY COOL THAT LITTLE OLD LADIES ALL OVER THE WORLD 06:54.600 --> 06:58.532 ARE TAKING THE TIME TO RIGHT TO ME AND, YOU KNOW, THEY ARE 06:58.666 --> 07:02.032 ENJOYING WHAT I DO. 07:03.833 --> 07:08.432 TO SEE MORE, VISIT JoHamiltonart.com.