With both a lifelong love of crocheting and a fascination with the atomic age, it makes sense that Australian artist Trevor Smith decided to turn vintage household knickknacks into impeccable woolen replicas.
From vinyl record players to clock radios, tea kettles to outdated recipes, Smith can transform nearly anything into lifelike wool sculptures. He learned the craft as a child and has been practicing ever since, a lifelong hobby that he describes as his source of relaxation.
“My mother taught me to crochet when I was a child. I think I was probably eight years old and I enjoyed it straight away,” Smith said in an interview with the website MollieMakes.
When it comes to deciding what to crochet, Smith finds inspiration from vintage recipe books and dusty magazines from the 50s, 60s, and 70s, as well as the types of appliances that surrounded him during his childhood.
Speaking of the era during which he grew up, Smith told ABC News, “It’s the period I grew up in, the period of lime green kitchens and bright orange appliances, something that I’m familiar with, something I’ve always had an interest in.”
The pieces take Smith around 15-30 hours to create and he’s currently exhibiting them throughout Australia.
Check out his incredible crochet work on his Instagram below.
