Collaged found & recycled materials: jute, fabric, paper, plastic, wood, miscellaneous components found in Barreiro wasteland, on cardboard

88 (h) x 94 x 7cm

2024

Unframed

Unique

Collage exploring ideas for my large sculpture Sack.

Sack is a response to PADA’s history as a jute factory warehouse, and the nearby CUF toxic wasteland. The bodily form, a container of waste, is made from a hand-stitched patchwork of discarded materials/offcuts I’ve collected in the locality, especially jute sacks. The warp and weft of the weavings reflect grids in urban surrounds. and colours of yellow wild flowers and lichen growing there; reds/oranges of iron and sulphur..

‘This vast sack.. belly of the universe.. womb.. tomb.. unending story..’ (Ursula Le Guin, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction)