GROUND

85 x 90 cm

Patchwork, quilting, hand-block print and hand embroidery on cotton and cotton chambray, with foam insert

2026

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.

A pair of worn socks, pieced from grey-blue fabric squares like a pixelated image, rests on a block-printed grid of mustard dots. Small embroidered maroon bugs, stand-ins for ourselves, creep across the surface. Ground traces the footprint of everyday clothing, showing how our appetite for more slowly wears the earth beneath us thin.

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