the arrest

graphite on pergamon paper

This is an exercise in perseverance, of tracing and layering a multitude of text.  Taken from ‘The Trial’ by Franz Kafka, chapter one is written onto pergamon paper through a graphite transfer paper. As text is placed, shrouded, one on top of the other, it becomes less and less about the words and sentences in the book and more about the narrative of the marks. Chapter one in Kafka’s book indicate that in fact the law is often murkier and more confusing than we’d like it to be. This is echoed by the marks made and therefore the story emerges in a new format.

the front line

tea bags and thread

the front line looks at the role of the policeman as the comforter in tragic situations. The gesture of a cup of tea offered, to help alleviate suffering, or the blanket, as an offering of warmth and protection, are combined in this piece of work.  

Sewing, a practical process, suggests domestic tendencies, but the work seeks to move it to a wider context and highlight its simple usefulness. A continuous motion of looping thread, attaches and upholds one tea bag to another. Becoming stronger in form as an assemblage, the work follows the grid-like pattern provided by the square, and becomes the blanket or the quilt. The notion of warmth and comfort are two-fold.