My practice is committed to a collaboration with found materials, including previously worn clothing, purses, quilts, and other textiles traditionally associated with femininity. I work with objects that have disparate and gendered histories, that harbor pop-cultural and middle class associations, and that reflect capital and its pace. I am often thinking about the language surrounding commodities, learned aesthetics of gender roles, handmade labor traditions within "women's work” and textile production (fast fashion v. quilt making), gestures that complicate and queer the Minimalist sculptural cannon, and material synchronicities that stretch through time. My work centers the process of deconstruction and reconstruction (via sewing) and is materially and conceptually informed by my youth spent in Southern California.
inquiries: floraewilds@gmail.com
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photo by Tori Hilshey click here c. 2022