As a textile artist, I sometimes feel like I’m making a three-dimensional painting from 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 that moves from deep olives and oranges through yellows and creams. The dangling ties echo drips of paint. All of the garments were sourced from my archive of unwanted clothing.
The work was created in conversation with a painting by Kelly Reemtsen. Her iconic image of a woman in a yellow dress holding a gray chainsaw inspired both the palette and the sense of energy rising through the form.
This is one of three sculptures created for Gathering Threads, a collaborative exhibition at Galleri Oxholm in Køge, Denmark.
The project centers on artistic dialogue, exploring how different materials, techniques, and perspectives can come together to form something new.
Through our partnership, viewers are invited into a shared space of discovery, where the boundaries between our practices dissolve and re-form into a unified vision.
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.
