Settle

screen print with fiber reactive dye on Terry cloth / 60″ x 174″ / As they are, images dilute the characteristics of the subjects they represent. Objects impose their materiality upon others. In my most recent body of work, images of I-beams and the materiality of terry cloth are united – the beams endow a sense of presence and legitimacy to the fabric, and the terry cloth robs the I-beam of its assumed strength and stability. The terry cloth’s texture serves the photographic quality of the image, however it also splits the beam’s likeness into thousands of soft looped dyed threads, undermining its representation of power. Hard becomes soft, and soft emboldened.