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Slip

Knitting work has so many opposing qualities to it, being both a form of meditation, and also requiring a physicality to be able to work on the creations. It is both restful and active, and there is stillness in the activity, yet I also have to pace myself when I work to avoid injuring my hands.

Thematically my artwork has been inspired by the generations of women who came before me. I think about how it links me to my mother, her mother, and all the generations of women who came before them—working with their hands and making things for their families, and themselves, bringing people together and connecting them in so many ways, similar to the way the same knit stitch has carried through.

‘Slip’ is a term used in knitting. When you slip stitches, you slide the stitch off of one needle and onto the other one without working it. Slip is also a term used in relation to blood flow, and it also relates to how the word is used in phrases we use: ‘Slip in / into / away / by / down / out / through /....’. I’m also in conversation with the word’s additional meaning as something hidden away or worn under things…

Slip was inspired by drawings I’d made of formations of menstrual blood falling through the surface of a body of water, dripping and overlaid to show the movements of falling to rest.”