As an artist working in a settled but relatively wild area, the question of where the boundary between humanity and wilderness lies is a major theme behind my work. Adornment deconstructs the line between the wearer and what is worn in the same way that I blur the boundaries between nature and artifice.
The combination of wool with found natural and artificial objects serves as a metaphor for human/wild interaction. Wool simultaneously conforms to and obscures the underlying structure of the objects it surrounds, much the way that we both alter and are altered by the landscapes we inhabit.
The combination of wool with found natural and artificial objects serves as a metaphor for human/wild interaction. Wool simultaneously conforms to and obscures the underlying structure of the objects it surrounds, much the way that we both alter and are altered by the landscapes we inhabit.