Life Cycle
120 x 70 x 4 cm
Hanging Canvas
Techniques: Wet felting, nuno felting, trapping, dyeing, resists and couching
Materials: merino wool, silk fabric, silk carrier rods, organza, wool nepps, cotton wadding and threads.
The vivid hues of sun, lush foliage and Ulysses butterflies represent my earliest childhood memories living in Trinidad – one of the smallest nations in the world.
Blocks of different fibre types symbolise the stages of my life in both hemispheres. A lifetime of traversing the latitudes finds me now living in one of the biggest countries on the planet but still wandering…