9”x 8” x 16”
Raw canvas, ink, wood
2023
Not everyone wants your love.
*Shown alongside That's Now How You Make A Basket.
This 3D textile-based sculpture work is part of the HOLD collection - a body of work that's inspired by the concept of baskets: vessels that were designed to hold and carry items only of a certain size with limitations…not everything is meant to be carried. Grains of sand, water, soil, beads, pebbles, leaves, berries… still slip through the cracks. The baskets are meant to hold onto what truly matters, and release whatever doesn’t. The cracks are there to let whatever shouldn’t be contained slip away. The history of basket making has been lost - the basket couldn’t even hold onto its own story. This collection explores the paradox that exists in the moments of time when letting go is essential in order to be able to carry on with what matters. Not everything or everyone was meant to be kept.