Buried Textiles
Ode to a Nematode, detail
buried and exhumed family heirloom linen and lace doily
with stitched vanishing thread
In 2023 I began to work in tandem with a group of members from the organization Ecoartspace on a project about soil.
Each of us is uniquely engaged in the process of burying and exhuming textiles as a way to read the conditions of soils across the globe. Like air and water, and all life-sustaining earthly elements, the health of our soils is negatively impacted by human activities including manufacturing and agricultural pollutants, overpopulation and development and transgressive extractions.
These factors, combined with the activities of below-ground micro-inhabitants, affect the soil’s compositions, and alter our buried textiles in a host of visible and substantive ways.
As I learn about the accelerating threats to life on earth, extending to the very ground that provides our sustenance and literal support, I mean for this project to resonate with in-progress environmental alarms.
This page and its links include images and texts from my buried textile work to date. Texts also include links for source materials.