part of an ongoing series of semi site specific sculptures since 2024
An act of separation and a place of convergence
‘girðing I’ 2025, made during my residency at the Fish Factory in Stöðvarfjörður.
I spent my time at the Fish Factory reframing my practice – coming from my own familiar studio environment, Stöðvarfjörður and Iceland were a major change – and I responded by walking, observing, searching and finding, then bringing those experiences and found objects back to the sewing machine.
Sewing as a practice/craft has always been one which I banned to the home, a space for myself to relax and make without the pressure of making art.
Being so isolated from my own home and studio it actually felt really nice to turn back to this craft in order to create my work.
The sounds of the tracing paper being cut, sewn, and built into the sculpture became a soundtrack to my time at the fish factory, merging with the waves crashing into the fjord and the wind carving a patch between the mountains.
I’ve been researching the merging of medical and religious rituals, how many religious rituals come from a medical understanding, and how many medical rituals we still use today are actually done in reassurance, not medical necessity. In Iceland I searched for local herbal remedies and religious myths, where do they meet, and where do they diverge?
