[k]not apart
‘(K)not Apart’ consists of five flax and cotton crochet sculptures. They emerged from a period of slowing down and listening.
Whilst sitting the hands seemed to be involved in the inquiry somehow. Having just discovered a crochet hook, I began experimenting with thread, and as the hands formed tight loops with no clear outcome, these compact, solid-yet-porous forms emerged.
In the accumulation of spiralling loops around loops, cradled in my hand, I noticed parallels with how beliefs appear to solidify around imaginary concepts, how they become a felt sense, seeming to have real substance.
Simultaneously as the knots took shape, an inward softening and unravelling of something seemed to occur.
The hands, free from any particular intention, seemed to translate a subtle internal sense into something more observable that could be held and seen for what it is and is (k)not.
These pieces were shown alongside the work of Andrew Bracey in the exhibition MArKING TIME at General Practice project space in Lincoln, April 2024.
