“Unknot” (first image), “Euclidean Space” (golden brown rope) and “Möbius Band,” ceramic elements, cotton and twine rope, silk thread, 2024
A body of sculptural work made during a research residency in Shanghai, Jingdezhen, and Hangzhou looking at the Old China Trade in Salem and the legacy of Chinese craftsmanship and reproduction objects.
The series “Topology” considers the technological aspects of craft. Weaving involves complex mathematics, similar to knot theory and topology, the study of the space of irregular or twisted forms. Lord Kelvin incorrectly theorized that atoms were shaped like knots, and since then topology has been used to study molecular structures and map the orbits of particles in quantum physics. Within this context, craft might be seen as a once commonplace, kinesthetic way of modeling the world around us.