Conductive Burial Shroud Belt, 2022

Cotton medium-weight yarn, Cotton crochet-weight yarn, dirt, copper gaskets, copper wire, copper nails

A dirt-soaked knitted structure is stretched out by copper nails that grip it to the gallery wall. The spine of the structure is 47 inches in length and 6 inches wide, knitted with white cotton yarn on 4.5mm needles. An eyelet pattern that repeats 9 times depicts diagonal and perpendicular eyelets coming from the centre of a circle. A copper gasket is placed in the centre of each circle, held on by an embroidered line of copper wire that spans the entire length of the spine. Six knitted pieces of the same material stretch out from the spine that depicts a zig-zag eyelet pattern, forming perpendicular lines at the top, bottom, and centre of the structure. Crochet weight lace is knitted on 2.5mm needles, bordering the entire knit. Loose ends of yarn left from the construction fall freely. 

Shown at nvrld gallery for the Ritual Arts Inaugural Exhibition, May 2022

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