Gods Shrink

This piece expresses how the gods we set up for ourselves to worship can with time shrink to something mundane, irrelevant and eventually strangely endearing.

The technique used, of knitting a shape in different fibre content yarns and then washing to make it shrink selectively, produces a distorted shape that reflects the piecemeal shrinkage of our gods over time. Much of this piece was knitted in a circular needle, reflecting the circular thinking processes that accompany the shrinkage. The use of found materials reflects how such shining gods were often secondhand - given to us by family or institutions.

My work uses innovative textile techniques, embroidery, weaving and dressmaking to express the complexities of subjective experience and its relationship to the physical body.