Detail- If They Die We All Die

Sculpture: Fabric, Textile, Found Objects, Fiber on Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric), Other.

Using an old sailors hat as a point of departure to create a portrait. Part of a series of three and an ongoing exploration of object as memory. I am captivated by the unobvious silent material witnesses to a life lived; a worn bed sheet, a stained tablecloth, a moth-eaten gown. Such artefacts bare the marks and physicality of human nature, possessing a poetic power. They are simultaneously valuable in their uniqueness and worthless in their deteriorated, decontextualized state. Each piece created from these objects is therefore both my personal expression of the hidden memories embedded in the original items, and a way to explore the recycling and re-contextualising of meaning and value in contemporary society. The experience and memories of others, imagined and real, fuse seamlessly with my own through the salvation, destruction and discordant juxtaposition of materials.