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According to her website, artist Shannon Gerard aims to spread awareness of early detection of  the cancer of the breast and the penise. 

This ‘project  initiates conversations about our bodies and confronts the idea of human frailty.’ through soft crochets. Pretty cool!

Source: http://shannongerard.org/index.html

And there is more to crochet than to comfort, to beautify and to propagate causes; came across this site some time back while i googled for crochet ideas and patterns. This site is called the

counterfeit crochet project (critique of a political economy).

It started in 2006 when the founder gather like-minded artists to counterfeit designer bags using crochet and to wear them - the ‘blatantly homemade knock-off bag’ perhaps mocking the bizarre piracy of designer bags in Asia and the huge demand for good forgeries!

souce: http://www.counterfeitcrochet.org/index.html

if you like these, you will like:

http://www.extremecraft.typepad.com/
http://www.foundshit.com/