Something Worth Fighting For

Resources, 20x6, Hand-woven; dyed; felted bamboo & soy, 2010

This is another piece from my Sustain exhibition that depicts Nature's resources...not so subtly either. Conservation remains to be the theme behind my work for now. I have been so interested in taking something that is depicted as beautiful and fragile, then transforming it into something that appears captured and uncomfortable. This concept of us trapping and suffocating Nature as en entity, has relayed itself into most of my recent works. I like the use of different techniques here to achieve my message including knitting, felting and double weave. Now it is time for move on from this concept...maybe delve into something more subtle.

Bamboo + Soy

Roots, 18x15, Hand-Woven Bamboo & Knitted Soy, 2010

This piece touches on one of the resources that Nature Provides us - Roots. Food is grown from plants beginning as roots, the air we breathe comes from the roots of trees that grow, and our lives stem from our cultural or family roots.