I was looking deeply into the intersections of my own queer identity with my climate grief and anxiety. I see the way climate change exacerbates other social issues and effects people unevenly, unfairly and acutely. I see how structures of colonialism and capitalism find ways to exploit and marginalise people of colour and indigenous peoples leading the fight in queer rights and climate justice. I see how the earths mass and queer bodies both fall in the hands of these same pillars of oppression. These understandings are exhausting to the point of tears. The work uses motifs to hint at some of these social ideas, and the way we experience them. I have taken the tears and with them created a whole structure, a powerful mass. The work invites the viewer to enter and find space for reflection and refuge, and to feel held by the many hands reaching for a just future. The works personlike structure references a phrase I was once told; ‘we stand on tall tall shoulders’ and is an ode those who fought before us, queer heros and climate warriors. By looking at a range of queer textile artists I have also addressed conceptual links between queer theory and textile art. The overall tone of th
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I was looking deeply into the intersections of my own queer identity with my climate grief and anxiety. I see the way climate change exacerbates other social issues and effects people unevenly, unfairly and acutely. I see how structures of colonialism and capitalism find ways to exploit and marginalise people of colour and indigenous peoples leading the fight in queer rights and climate justice. I see how the earths mass and queer bodies both fall in the hands of these same pillars of oppression. These understandings are exhausting to the point of tears. The work uses motifs to hint at some of these social ideas, and the way we experience them. I have taken the tears and with them created a whole structure, a powerful mass. The work invites the viewer to enter and find space for reflection and refuge, and to feel held by the many hands reaching for a just future. The works personlike structure references a phrase I was once told; ‘we stand on tall tall shoulders’ and is an ode those who fought before us, queer heros and climate warriors. By looking at a range of queer textile artists I have also addressed conceptual links between queer theory and textile art. The overall tone of th
AS THE POWER OF THEIR MASS
2019
we stand on tall TALL shoulders
I was looking deeply into the intersections of my own queer identity with my climate grief and anxiety. I see the way climate change exacerbates other social issues and effects people unevenly, unfairly and acutely. I see how structures of colonialism and capitalism find ways to exploit and marginalise people of colour and indigenous peoples leading the fight in queer rights and climate justice. I see how the earths mass and queer bodies both fall in the hands of these same pillars of oppression. These understandings are exhausting to the point of tears. The work uses motifs to hint at some of these social ideas, and the way we experience them. I have taken the tears and with them created a whole structure, a powerful mass. The work invites the viewer to enter and find space for reflection and refuge, and to feel held by the many hands reaching for a just future. The works personlike structure references a phrase I was once told; ‘we stand on tall tall shoulders’ and is an ode those who fought before us, queer heros and climate warriors. By looking at a range of queer textile artists I have also addressed conceptual links between queer theory and textile art. The overall tone of the work vacillates between one of heaviness and despair, and that of hope and empowerment for the future.