SOLO EXHIBITION . LA ARTS . LEWISTON, MAINE . WINTER 2023
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STATEMENT
A humble act born of necessity, repair at one time was a common sense, commonplace task among the populace. The ever increasing consumer driven addiction for more, for new, and newer, adequate and fixable goods are simply discarded contributing to our threatened environment.
I use a needle and thread as a representation to investigate mending as an intervention, as metaphor, as a call to action. Not only to restore material things, but as an intention to mend the fractured parts of ourselves, the divisiveness, cruelty, and injustices of our ruptured world one stitch at a time.
A humble act born of necessity, repair at one time was a common sense, commonplace task among the populace. The ever increasing consumer driven addiction for more, for new, and newer, adequate and fixable goods are simply discarded contributing to our threatened environment.
I use a needle and thread as a representation to investigate mending as an intervention, as metaphor, as a call to action. Not only to restore material things, but as an intention to mend the fractured parts of ourselves, the divisiveness, cruelty, and injustices of our ruptured world one stitch at a time.