The Baltimore man’s artistic creations have gained him fans across the globe, but the pandemic forced him to look more locally for inspiration.
But before all of that, before the followers and the fanfare, before he ever completed his first stitch, Barsky was a child diagnosed with a learning disability whose parents moved the family from a Washington suburb to the Baltimore region so he could attend a school that could meet his needs.“It was obvious when I was younger that I couldn’t fit into a regular school,” Barsky told me on a recent evening. “Every time I tried one out, it was a disaster.
A short time later, he saw a stand at a flea market selling yarn. He had tried, and failed, to learn to knit on his own in the past. He asked the people at the stand where he could go to learn. They told him they would teach him free at their yarn store.Barsky recalls showing up for his first lesson wearing a commercially made paisley sweater. He wanted to show his instructor what he hoped to create.
Another of Barsky’s sweaters features the U.S. Capitol building on the front and the Washington Monument on the back. I thought of Barsky on a recent morning when the air was cool enough to conjure thoughts of knitwear. But the truth is, it is always sweater weather for him. He wears his sweaters every day, no matter the temperature outside. He makes many of his sweaters out of cotton and with short sleeves so he can wear them comfortably on hot days.While Barsky has long been knitting, the pandemic changed his work and reach.
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