About the work
Hand-built textiles bring reclaimed fibres into contact with seeds, beans and pasta. Uneven tension, loose ends and interrupted connections remain visible, recording the encounter between material resistance and the artist’s hand.
Reclaimed knit, paper yarn, red beans, pasta and lotus seeds. Natural dyes from red cabbage, beetroot and blueberries.
Material studies
Valued ImperfectionArtist’s note
Valued Imperfection is a textile-based exploration of material instability, irregularity and the conventional boundaries of perfection. Through hand-built structures, irregular tension and interrupted connections, the work makes visible the negotiations between material resistance and the artist’s hand. What might be read as a flaw becomes a record of contact: an index of pressure, duration and the conditions of making.
Challenging the industrial tendency to prioritise uniformity, efficiency and control, the work embraces irregularities as traces of material behaviour and human intervention. Variations in structure, tension and connection reveal the fragile relationships that hold a textile together.
The textile is approached as a provisional architecture, held between cohesion and dispersal. Openings, loose ends and uneven intervals remain exposed, allowing the surface to register the contingencies through which it comes into being.