Grey Matter (Soft Network), 2023, handspun wool, acrylic yarn, reclaimed plastic bags and wrapping, cotton netting, reclaimed fabric and fiber, dimensions variable
Statement on Soft Network for Terrain Biennial 2023
What defines our existence?
Our days are made up of social, professional and familial events, interspersed by a series of brief, random interactions with the strangers whose own events intersect ours.
These are connections that, in the moment, seem unremarkable: the polite compliment in the grocery store line before Sunday dinner, the half-mast wave from the bus stop after a movie with a friend, the flicker of a smile in the mirror over the restroom sink at your nephew’s wedding. Although these moments seem insignificant, their value can be elevated depending on where they fall in our continuum–where are we heading, or coming from? What line of thinking did this meeting interrupt? Have we met before somewhere? Some of the lessons that most expressly define who we are come from these “soft” connections: when strangers become familiars, or teach us things that we share with family or friends. This is the network that can sustain us, heal us and reveal to us who we are.
Soft Network is a fiber installation that incorporates coils of reclaimed yarn on single use plastic waste nestled in a web of spun wool.
