duvet, woven fabric, ceramics, 2023

50 x 78 x 11 inches

Some of the process…

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Other Work

Stilling Life

25 x14 x 4 inches

Every Time There’s a Little Less

12 x 9 x 1.5 inches

altered woven fabric, ceramics, 2023

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Threshold Series

ceramics, 2022

dimensions between 9.5 x 5 x 6 and 10.5 x 8 x 6 inches

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The Path of Most Resistance

tights, thread, stones, beans, 2020

I want to understand the labour hidden in craft, and hidden in the body. Craft is labour, and labour is physical. It’s repetitive, it’s tiring, it’s tedious, it’s squeezed between all the other labours of life. It’s what our material world is made of, and soft bodies bear the weight. Labour is striving, struggle, the path of most resistance; it is delicate, fragile, vulnerable to quietly disappearing. The unheroic, the mundane, folded into each unacknowledged stitch. The desire to achieve, to attain, to reach somewhere, something, by many small efforts. To realize the path of the body, slowly. Is this labour power? To create, to give life – there’s power in weight, even when it’s restrained and restricted. But how long can the weight be sustained? How is it contained, does it accumulate, like heavy metals? Does the body just keep on stretching?

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