A single blue shirt with a dense floral print, outlined in pale strips like a tailor's pattern pieces, fills a speckled red-and-blue stitched ground. Raised red bugs settle across it in orderly rows, while pale silver bugs line up around it, waiting their turn. Colony shows consumption as an organised, ever-expanding settlement.
COLONY
162 x 152 cm
Hand-block discharge print and hand embroidery on denim
2024
This artwork is part of Second Appetite, a series of four textile works in which clothing, often called a second skin, becomes a surface being eaten away, as fast fashion's hunger for novelty devours the planet's water, soil and labour.