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We’re all tangled up in this week’s Studio Sunday with .and.perish 🧶✨

“Obsession functions as the driving force behind my practice, which spans across textile, sculpture, and collage, exploring the fluidity between each medium. My work is done by hand, whether that be hand-sewing, crocheting, or drawing. Doing each aspect myself becomes crucial in the control I have over the object and the process. It also functions as a testament to my existence, a reminder of presence even when working through dissociative states. 
The focus on materiality within my object-making is accompanied by a feminist-based research practice which situates itself within the realm of theory, philosophy, and psychoanalytic text. Psychiatrist Domina Petric defines the term ‘psychological knot’ as a tangled configuration of thoughts, emotions, or beliefs stemming from trauma. This knot is where I begin my research and, though a mutative process, I work to deconstruct and then re-stitch everything back together. Using the works of writers such as Susan Sontag, D.W. Winnicott, Julia Kristeva, and Siri Hustvedt, I work to analyze fragments of my childhood and subjecthood. Overarching themes can be grouped into various pairs of contradictions such as care/malice, starvation/consumption, and melancholia/mania. 
I see all of my work as a form of skin—whether taut over frames, sutured onto paper, or stuffed into three-dimensional form. They are subject to constant care and harm, mutilating and mending, echoing life’s paradoxes.” - Ophelia Arc

Have some unused pieces of clothing taking up space in your closet? Bring them to the Clothing Swap and trade!

The fashion industry accounts for an estimated 10% (!) of global carbon emissions, and employs millions of people, many of whom are working under forced labor conditions.

What lifestyle changes can you make to avoid contributing to this rapacious system? Through the swap, you can buy fewer items and still enjoy something that’s “new to you”. Clean out your closet, or simply make a spot in a dresser drawer, and join us to give away, trade or take gently used adult and kid’s clothing and accessories.

This is a free event—who knows, you might go home with a new favorite garment!

Register through the link in our bio 👚

Hidden Power. Survivors of Modern Slavery presents Christina Chan’s hyperrealistic drawings of survivors of modern slavery, including forced labor and s*x trafficking. Today an estimated 50 million people are held against their will, generating more than $236 billion each year from industries and products including smartphones, fashion, chocolate, sugar, bananas, hospitality, and commercial s*x.
In this updated collection, Chan begins to focus on the beauty and power of hands caught in modern slavery, as a way of expanding the conversation around labor, manufacturing and consumption.
These pieces complement her ongoing portrait series of survivors, where Chan personally connects with individual to learn their story through conversation and research, and then create their portrait over the course of between 20 to 90 hours.
The beauty and intricacy of the portraits reveal both the quiet dignity and resilience of those who have endured. These people carry unseen histories of exploitation and survival.
Visitors are
encouraged to question the hidden
cost behind familiar products and to explore what awareness means: What tradeoffs we are willing to make between our own physical comfort and desires and the wellbeing of others? Do we continue life as usual, or find ways to change? .portraits

Not only is she a mother, she’s also the mother of Show Up 🌷

The heart behind a space that continues to bring people and ideas together. Happy Mother’s Day to all moms creating care in every form 💐

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