(Archive) Felt Time

Crafting through Connection

Craft techniques like felting and hand-dyeing allow me to engage with wool, flowers, water, and heat through the body, creating a life cycle in which I accompany these resources into sculpted forms. For example, the vibrant yellows, oranges, and greens of various flowers; and the reds of madder roots are applied to the wool according to their harvest seasons, while merging in some parts.

Through my work, I aim to build an alternate reality where practices of care and interdependence are placed centrally. Some of the plant dyes are homegrown, or come from community gardens that I am involved in. By engaging in gardening practices, I obtain the necessary resources and become part of a network of mutual support. This reflects in my work ethos which grows out of relations between communities of other humans and more-than-humans.