Staffs

Open series: 2007
Varying sizes

Staffs use industrial bobbins that have totemic shapes and where I have actually spun the paper into thread. The text is truly transformed and illegible, becoming a dot pattern on the threads. The whirled threads are emblematic of rote repetition, a concept that applies to the passing down of outmoded proverbs as well as notions of “women’s work.” These pieces become more abstracted and sculptural.