Threading together anthropology and craft, my work uses textiles to explore the often overlooked and underappreciated world of women’s work—positioning craft communities as central for a renewed recognition of the intimate relationship between body and cloth. I shape fabric pieces by combining textural porous surfaces with temporal alternative photography. Entwining time and texture to illuminate the mythic quality of fabric and its power to become an otherworldly landscape saturated with the worries, tears and secrets of its maker. I see my work as a love letter to the long-stitched biography of lives spent bent over cloth, revering their experience whilst reimagining and interlacing my own.
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