It's no coincidence that language around fiber — Slinging Yarn — has been used as an idiom for the narrative tradition. Like oral and written storytelling, Fibers exist as an index of fragmented parts, created by a non-continuous collective of labor, responsible for breaking apart the old to reconstruct the new. The index of the past lingers in the fiber to be integrated with the traumas of today, a dichotomy I explore by playing with visual representations of tension. In The Stories We Do Not Tell knitted morse code subverts the traditional idea of comfort, using fiber to reveal instead of conceal.
