the blue house, 2024.

crochet - hand knit - natural dyes​

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experience; family; generation; land; community memory; image; object; migration; home; willpower

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in 2022, my grandmother’s house was sold. She passed a few years before, and it was time for someone else to create new memories in that place. But whoever bought the house, didn’t want the land and vice-versa, so they had to remove the house from the land. The way they did it was by putting the house on a truck.

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Our relationship with the land is collapsable.

Movement through the land is a natural act, but people make it unnatural. All these forces and tensions are represented by the multiple spread plans, that connect and are not fixed in space. It is a collapsible, movable sculpture, not attached but placed.
The material had to move its state to become the final piece. Planes (fabric) turned into lines (yarn) and then back to planes (weaves). They came from discarded materials and found a new land to be in. The wool I used had the same migration process as mine. 

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