What is it that sees through these eyes? 2022

Copper, silver, organza, bronze armature, 1180 x 175 x 210 mm.

This work is an accumulative, durational piece that embodies an expanded sense of time. Over the course of three years, I sat outside in my garden and stitched fine yarn into organza through the stretch of dusk. I stitched in undulating lines that folded back on themselves to follow the curves of the previous one, creating an accruing rhythm of lines that responded to one another as I felt dusk evolving around me. At some point, when night settled, a threshold had been crossed and I registered this as a somatic feeling, putting down needle and thread. The area in the organza that these lines occupy references the felt length of dusk. These individual ‘dusks’ were then copper electroformed, plated with silver, and threaded together, accumulating into a form referencing the human body.

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What is it that sees through these eyes? 2022, copper, silver, organza, bronze, 1180 x 175 x 210 mm, photo Matthew Stanton

What is it that sees through these eyes? 2022 (detail), copper, silver, organza, bronze, 1180 x 175 x 210 mm, photo Michaela Pegum

What is it that sees through these eyes? 2022, copper, silver, organza, bronze, 1180 x 175 x 210 mm, photo Matthew Stanton