She crocheted a 28-foot skeleton for a gallery — but first it took over her home

Lethbridge, Alberta artist Shanell Papp's body of work usually explores the macabre. Whether it's her terrifying knitted monsters or her stitched blood pools, her work will certainly make you feel something.

Her latest piece, "Fall or Fell", is a 28-foot crocheted human skeleton that she began creating all the way back in 2019. "I wanted to work with something so delicate in a monumental way," she explains. And once COVID-19 hit, her project took on a new meaning.

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