14" x 12" x 6"
Painted canvas strips, wood dowels 2023
To some people, you will never get it right.
To some people, you will always fall short.
They will be quick to compare you to others, how others did it better, faster, louder, stronger.
But when you find your tribe, they will see that you’ve done it just right.
You did it the way you could.
Find those people. Those are your people.
The ones who champion the effort, the creativity, the aspiration, the adventure, the experimentation, the pause, the reflection, the humour.
The ones who are willing to lose in order to win.
Those are your people.
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.