Homemaker: maker (2018)

Performance

Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem Oregon

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As more strings fill the ceiling and the space with each performance, there will still always be room to add to or change the house. The window above the doorway allows a view of the most active parts of the work: my hands, the needle, the wounds made in the fabric, the accumulation of vein strings. Inside, the strings get closer with every addition, tangling, untangling, holding shapes, losing them. They obstruct your path, but respond to your movement, clinging to your body like stray hairs on a borrowed sweater. My body stretches to reach the ceiling, as the fabric stretches to make room for each piece of string. Like a parent bearing the weight of their children, always giving without giving up.

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photo credit: Cayla Skillin-Brauchle