My book, “Preface” seeks to subvert our associations and expectations of the traditional book format to alter the reading experience. This book documents the remnants of a book torn apart and collaged, forming new connections between pages and exploring the idea of book ‘space’.

Garment-object #1 from my series titled, “Unfold”. This series combines poetry and found image to create living fabrics pressed with traces of time, place and memory. I am by the idea that garments can possess and represent mental space and memory. Specifically, how they become activated by our physicality and personas. A continuity exists between the body, image and the fabric as it becomes stained by the wearer’s presence.

Close up photographs of the series, “Unfold”.

Each garment unfolds to reveal a line from TS Elliots poem, Four Quartets. I plucked out particular stanzas and lines which I resonated with to dissect and recontextualise. Four Quartets is a poem which reflects on endings and beginnings. It has a recurring theme of circularity, which reaffirms this idea of folding and unfolding.

As a series, these items reflect time, place and relationships: platonic, romantic, familial or the relationship with one’s self. The definition of a ‘quartet’ is “a group of people playing music or singing together”, and each garment consists of four individually crafted pieces stitched together to form a whole.