Your Body Protects You

A moving blanket offers protection to items we value during times of transition, much the way our body provides us protection; temporarily, not always comfortably, and from what? Textiles can provide protection but break down over time as our bodies will. Heavier, more durable materials, like concrete and bronze, will withstand change, the passing of time. In contrast to these more permanent materials, our bodies have a limited shelf life. In Your Body Protects You, the objects we choose to save and store can negotiate and highlight the conflict between our physical vulnerabilities and the future life of objects. They take on our inconstant emotions, our abstract ideas, our projections of significance, but temporarily. The making, the stewardship and, the transportation of these items becomes a personal, emotional transition using an object; a physical attempt to understand the mutable, continually changing landscape of our lives, our bodies, and our mortality.