Weighted Blanket, 2021
vinyl fabric, embroidery floss, stimulus checks, rose, hand mirror, ‘American defender’ whistles found in a dumpster, bouquet, Christmas lights, aquarium plants, masks, Norman Rockwell plate, lexapro bottles, scale, discarded trophy, pieces of a tail light, chandelier crystals, paper white bulb, spatula, frying pan vinyl fabric, embroidery floss
The objects in Weighted Blanket were given from friends, personal belongings, found in a dumpster, a thrift store, or on the side of the road during the pandemic. What gets inherited from generation to generation, physically and psychologically, and how do these things live in our bodies? How do we engage in the process of deciding what to keep, discard, or mend, everything laid out in full transparency? What forms of comfort can be healing to the body’s nervous system, and what false forms are eventually crushing? For me, stitching is a generative method of self soothing while dealing with weighty material.
