carrier bag
Handmade paper, eel grass, abaca, mixed recycled fibers, cotton and synthetic hand-knotted nets, beads, found objects, cyanotype, silver gelatin print, stones, glass, brick, steel pins
2025
Named after Ursulua K. LeGuin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, this work brings collections of found objects and fragments together in ephemeral installations mounted as dimensional paper assemblages. Photos from my archive are remediated into new compositions, wrapped in netting, and cast upon objects; as an image is also an object, stories and memories must surely also be (of) their own materials. I wonder how our “entropic wastes” can tell LeGuin’s “life story” alongside the “death story” of extractive capitalism, climate disaster, and untenable consumption. As I hand-knot each net with wooden shuttles lovingly made by someone dear, I wonder about how these collections of castoffs tell the story between life and death , the story of grief and loss and transition, the story of sowing and gathering and feeding new life.