NEVER NOT BROKEN
Inspired by a show at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris dedicated to sacred, shapeless (non-representational) fetishes collected from Africa by Christian missionaries at the turn of the century, these fragmentary forms are largely dictated by chance and automatic sewing of misshapen felt scraps left over from craft projects with my young daughter. The works are finished once that come together into an intuitive and unplanned whole.
A series of impossible objects and unnameables, fascinating in their refusal to conform through shape, words or cultural construct; they remain undefinable in their comforting familiarity. My studio practice is one of constantly reusing, reinterpreting and reimagining the detritus produced in the studio, so that nothing is left to waste and ready for creative reinvention. These works explore power and presence through what is LEFT and what is FELT in the seemingly easy mixing of textiles, transposed letters and meaning.
Then comes the reassembled self, the self you have to put back together. You no longer have to devote time to finding out what you are, you are just free to be whatever you want to be, unimpeded by the incessant needs of others. You somehow grow into the fullness of your humanity, form your own character, become a proper person — I don’t know, someone who has become a part of things, not someone separated from or at odds with the world.
~ Nick Cave (the singer)
