How I Made This: Windy Chien’s Knotted Art

Humans have documented almost 4,000 different knots, many of them invented by sailors. In 2016, Windy Chien set out to learn a fraction of them. That year, the San Francisco–based artist—an avid sailor herself—decided to learn one knot a day, embarking on what would eventually become The Year of Knots, a book detailing her diligent creative journey. “I had this idea that by the end of the year I would be fluent in this language,” she told ARTnews. “I’d h