Shades of lost tourist Sculpture

This is the third part of the Survivor Capes trilogy exploring how surviving changes how we understand and see the world around us. Much of the overwhelming and seemingly endless emotions and grief of trauma are often projected onto the world outside. These pieces capture that with patterns and weaving suggesting waterfalls and endless sidewalks. Capes are often associated with superheroes. Not only heroes wear capes though. These are a series of capes for shapeshifting survivors to help them imagine new, strong identities while processing the pain of the past. Each title suggests ways to view and identities to imagine for the survivors who could wear this piece. This photograph (the original artwork was destroyed) is of an artwork made from recycled curtains and woven on a homemade loom I call my “bed of nails” loom. What does it mean to survive? It often feels sloppy, beautiful and sad. Full of awkwardly recycled possibilities and lost identities, this exhibition explores the types of stories created to help survive violence and trauma. Each piece in this series is not just a cape but also a “curtain” both hiding and revealing the psychological process of resilience. The stories are told through weavings combining the traditionally feminine genre of craftwork with the more masculine avant-grade and abstract. Messily re-created curtains (made from old curtains back into curtains) are sculpted and twisted into fragile abstract paintings. The loom used to make this series was created from an old bedframe that affectionately became known as the “bed of nails”. The Survivor Series tells many stories: true stories and fairy tales. They are told through the unravelling and recycling of one existence. New stories are woven together with the old material from the past. All the original pieces were roughly the same size (1 meter by 1 meter originally stretched out on the “bed of nails” loom) and made from thread and recycled curtains. Next photographs were taken and the original weaving destroyed. This collection is composed of 24 pieces and divided into three parts (messy cycles of beginnings, middles and ends): 1. Samurai Cinderella and Lady Hiroshima 2. Snow, love and lobster origami 3. Grieving skies and sidewalks in kimonos

Sculpture:Digital on Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:35 W x 42 H x 0.1 D in

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