Their grandmother taught them to crochet at the age of four, while their grandfather carved birds out of wood. After losing both grandparents in 2010, McCormack began working with their grandmother's leftover yarn, eventually creating skeletal birds that brought together two family traditions.

Looking at these creatures, you feel warmth, tenderness, and affection, but also the quiet pain of loss. There is something deeply existential about them. Even the sweetest, most fragile things, even those we imagine will always be there, must eventually surrender to time, sink gently toward the earth, and settle into their eternal sleep.

Sometimes these creatures seem to be slowly disappearing before your eyes, dissolving beneath the night rain, the early morning dew, the fading autumn sunlight, and the wind. It feels as though this is your last chance to see them. Tomorrow, they might no longer exist in the picture.

McCormack studies real skeletons, including specimens at Philadelphia's Wagner Free Institute of Science, then reconstructs anatomical forms through drawing, memory, and crochet.
Every tiny detail is made by hand using cotton thread, repeatedly stiffened with glue, and assembled into delicate skeletal structures. Something associated with warmth and domestic comfort takes on the appearance of an ancient fossil.
At first, you see an almost adorable little creature. Then you notice its bones, its impossible anatomy, the delicate threads, the strange emptiness surrounding it.

McCormack has managed to give crochet a contemporary aesthetic, transforming it into a medium for creating genuine art objects while preserving and highlighting the authenticity of the technique and establishing it as an art form worthy of serious attention.
Beyond all these ideas, McCormack has created something visually extraordinary.

These are beautifully designed, instantly recognizable sculptures with a powerful aesthetic identity.
They can be unsettling and adorable at the same time. They invite contemplation, but they also make you want to bring one home, place it somewhere special, and keep looking at it.
That balance between conceptual depth, technical craftsmanship, and visual appeal is what makes their artistic language so distinctive.

You can explore more of McCormack’s work and stay updated on upcoming exhibitions on their Instagram: @mister_cait