Edgeness

Edgeness is an appropriate term for avant-garde textiles practice because it cites established genres and their edges even as it cuts across and beyond them (sarat Maharaj)

As an artist I follow the relationship between the human body, embodiment and environments. The human body is a porous semipermiable membrane, which absorbs reflects and refracts its environment/experience. The praxis of textile in general and knitting in particular enables a transformative notion through practice of "always in process" and open ended - unfinished closures of the corpoself, in relation to culture, politics etc.

Knitting a CT image of my skull is intersecting the boundaries of wearable craft and science where the body sliced into segments of images or as Derrida puts it "An undecidable - sometimes that seems to belong to one genre but overshoots its borders and seems no less at home in another..." (barnet:199582). The perception of a piece of furniture such as a table becomes a part of the body just as much as the body becomes a part of the object.

Working in the same way CT scans slice a part of the body which is then scanned into thin films and rehashed into 3 Dimmentional images, knitting can likewise be seen as a metaphore for unravelling experience, slicing memories as the yarn is applied/employed and recast into art.