REST

2023, ongoing

Embroidering letter by letter; meditating on Tricia Hersey’s words on rest. Cover yourself with their soothing power. No need to rush. Pause for a bit. Rest is care. Rest is radical. Inspired by Tricia Hersey’s Manifesto Rest Is Resistance, this work is a meditation on the political power of rest against capitalism and hustle culture. While exploring this topic through research, experimentation and conversation, the process of embroidery particularly holds a space for slowing down, resting the mind, going step by step. The created textiles offer a space for comfort, pausing, and taking in the embroidered poetical, political phrases. Reflecting my relationship to art production, exhibiting, and resting, all three merge together in this spacial intervention; The act of creation intertwines with the display, leisure intertwines with labor, and exhibition extends beyond a mere showcase to the facilitation of collective repose.