Wanna come over? and Look in the top drawer. are woven sculptures that are both small in scale. Materials range from bedding, yarns, plastics, and found objects from the home. I create interrupted grids, incomplete or stretched apart areas that connect two planes of weavings.
Imbedded within the planes are toys, broken jewelry, objects of undefined significance. They are little treasures buried within the fabric. These objects are still recognizable and echo the utility of their initial life. My intention is to draw the viewer into these small weavings as they slowly take in the different textures and hidden objects.
The concentration of fiber in one plane or region of the sculpture forms a landscape, a highly trafficked area of the space. Whereas shadow and negative space form an open arena, a breathing moment for the viewer.
Some of these objects imbedded within the weavings hold personal significance, while others are simply evidence of a daily life. But placed together, they indicate an upending of value. They have similar worth, because in my mind we cannot always predict what is or what will be a portkey to a memory, or simple accumulation from our presence here on earth.
With my titling, I offer the viewer a hello, a familiarity of conversation. Wanna come over? is in reference to this spontaneous forming of relationships, the way you might talk to a friend or someone you’re trying to get to know. Look in the top drawer. is a familial phrase, something said amongst members of my household. In that way I hope the viewers will remember that place from their lives where things are cluttered, where useful and useless objects live on and on and on.