DOMESTIC OBJECTIONS digital photograph (applique on dusters and washing line) 2020 photo: Mike Garlick
TENSE wool on upholstery hessian 64cm x 60cm 2019 photo: Mike Garlick
STATE embroidery silk on upholstery hessian 110cm x 65cm 2019 photo: Mike Garlick
CONSUMPTION silk, cotton wadding and wool 121 x 128 cm 2020 photo: Article Studio
2020 bleach, tea, cotton, linen and wadding 125cm x 200cm 2021 photo: Mike Garlick
SKIN bleach and linen on cloth 160cm x 140cm 2018 photo: Mike Garlick
PRETTY MACHO spray paint, bedsheets, wadding @300cm x 300cm 2022 photo: Article Studio
I stitched a list cataloguing our daily consumption: food, cleaning products, alcohol and pills, exposing excess and boredom : the routines, requirements, treats and medications needed to survive life in the days before, during and after the pandemic. There was tedium and obsession in the stitching: a slow but urgent need for self-reliance and the attempt at avoiding too much self-medicating and a general unchecked consumerism.
We were eating ourselves.