When I make a piece like this, it feels like I’m making a painting with our collective history. Second-hand clothing doesn’t represent people, It remembers them.
This textile sculpture is built from seventy-five folded shirt sleeves and pant legs arranged in a gradient from deep olive and oranges through yellows and creams. The dangling ties echo drips of paint. All of the garments were sourced from my archive of second-hand clothing.
The work was created in conversation with a painting by Kelly Reemtsen, whose iconic image of a woman in a yellow dress holding a grey chainsaw inspired the palette and the sense of energy rising through the form.
This is one of three sculptures created for a collaborative show entitled “Gathering Threads”, for Galleri Oxholm in Køge, Denmark. This project was a celebration of artistic dialogue—an exploration of how different materials, techniques, and perspectives can come together to create something entirely new.
Sculpture Dimensions (not including base)
14” x 8” x 8”
Materials
The sculpture is made from second-hand clothing with a metal armature. The wood base is red oak, poplar and fir. The case (not pictured) is acrylic.
