Grounding/Safety Nets, 2018

Performance and installation with wool, chain, hardware, and lace strips

Arm-knitted yarn forms interactive nets of fibre. My hands and arms become the tools of the knitting process. The cumulative weight of yarn, my body, and casted metal causes the nets to sag and stretch. I calculate the patterns of the nets and trap myself within them. This series is a study on death and its tensioned weight.

Grounding (first image set) was shown independently in the group show Unruly Bodies 2 at Le Petite Trianon Gallery in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, in 2019.
This work is a part of my series Safety Nets and was presented in a solo show at the Marion Nicoll Gallery in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, in 2018.