[k]not apart
‘(K)not Apart’ consists of five flax and cotton crochet sculptures. They emerged from a period of slowing down. 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, I noticed parallels with how beliefs appear to solidify around ideas, how they seem to form a felt sense in the body, appear to have substance somehow.
Simultaneously as the knots took shape, an inward softening and unravelling of something seemed to occur.
My 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.
