Fibre is inextricably woven into the fabric of who we are—its threads connect us not only to
one another but to the world around us. Like the dense, invisible fungal networks that
colonise the earth, we too are entangled in a web of connections, a continuity that binds us
to nature and to the materials that sustain us.

My practice is concerned with these moments of entanglements, and the meditative,
reflective process of making which create these ‘scrapings of the soul’. The intimate craft
processes I engage with create sculptural gestures that subvert the domesticity typically
associated with these materials and techniques. My personal memories and connections to
materials weave with the collective histories of the materials and processes. As suggested
by Tim Ingold, our ancestors were likely fibre users before they were tool users. The
language of feeling interlaces myself with my materials and connects it with the world
around me.

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