Web of Lies
(Tissu de Mensonges)
(8"x10")
2013
SOLD
"Ideas are so folded in the soul, that sometimes it's impossible to develop them." Gilles Deleuze, The Fold.
This piece uses language as an abstract pattern. When I was a kid, I used to carry a cotton handkerchief in my pocket. As an adult, I see a handkerchiefs as a resonant object that catches the emotions we wipe from our faces. Additionally, kerchiefs are a somewhat antiquated accessory. I became interested in this combination of emotion and permanence in our ephemeral present.
In this piece, I have sewn lies over top of each other on a cotton handkerchief. I wanted to create a ritual to explore knots of emotion and their transformation into objects of confusion, and how questions of truth are carried and radiated through our lives.
These handkerchiefs represent both the cyclic nature of fabrication and the physical act of carrying our words and actions that prevent self reflection and impede us.
This piece uses language as an abstract pattern. When I was a kid, I used to carry a cotton handkerchief in my pocket. As an adult, I see a handkerchiefs as a resonant object that catches the emotions we wipe from our faces. Additionally, kerchiefs are a somewhat antiquated accessory. I became interested in this combination of emotion and permanence in our ephemeral present.
In this piece, I have sewn lies over top of each other on a cotton handkerchief. I wanted to create a ritual to explore knots of emotion and their transformation into objects of confusion, and how questions of truth are carried and radiated through our lives.
These handkerchiefs represent both the cyclic nature of fabrication and the physical act of carrying our words and actions that prevent self reflection and impede us.