SAIC Sullivan Galleries, October - December 2008
Installation for J. Morgan Puett’s collaborative project Department (Store)
"Pressing Needs" is an arrangement of garment care labels and dressmaking tools set inside a display case from the former Carson, Pirie, Scott building designed by Louis Sullivan. Collecting numerous labels out of various articles of clothing, I stitched over words using a machine darning technique. The fabrication process removed and re-framed language to alter meaning, resulting in a colorful accumulation of poem-like fragments from my free associations with notions of care and desire. I am continually adding to this collection, keeping the labels stored in a scroll of muslin that lengthens as needed.
