“they are containers of fluidity”
Deep in the details of hand crafts.
Of spinning, knitting, quilt-making, and wood-working.
This installation is made of many hands.
These objects are full of liveliness and animacy.
Of tales and futures. Of deep roots covered in soil. Of naming as personhood.
Of intimacy lying at the boundaries. As sites of radical, speculative imagination. To cross these boundaries. Back and forth.
Multimedia installation of hand-crafted craft tools for hand-crafts. – (Suspended hap frame, with hand-lathed pulley system [handmade with walnut, bocote, and oak]. 4 plate photolithographs. White linen quilt top with embedded hand-knitted Shetland lace samples – on hand-lathed oak. Standing quilt frame for hand-quilting [handmade with oak, iroko, and cherry]. TED quilt [in progress] made with coreopsis, buddleia, indigo, woad, dock leaves, found linen and cotton tablecloths and handkerchiefs, and a woollen blanket. Naturally dyed, in community, bird/tree of life quilt block. Scrap chair of gender-queer joy made in collaboration with Jules Dunn [oak, iroko, and pine] with scrap seat-top quilt. Hand-lathed, pine, niddy noddy wound with white, hand-spun wool. Spinning wheel from unknown maker, in traditional design of Scottish flax spinning wheels. Paper, books, zines, sewing pins, cork, wool, coreopsis. Quilt top of a lace pattern [naturally dyed].)
A large print installation description is available. Touch objects are also available and are intended to be handled by all visitors, especially those with different cognitive processing needs and low-vision and blind visitors. You can access an audio guide via the QR code (at https://linktr.ee/tedtinkler) that contains a visual description of all the objects in this installation – written and recorded by the artist.