What-If Could-Be forms part of Rosemarie Trockel’s ongoing series of knitting pictures, which have become somewhat of a brand of her oeuvre throughout the years. The machine knitted wool works are hung like paintings, subverting the ideas of domesticity embedded in the knitting of large squares that would traditionally be interpreted as blankets. Trockel purposely combines ‘female craft’ with ‘male machine production’ by creating her patterns on a computer, therefore ironically criticizing the roles women are and have been placed into in society and art.