Garden of Earthly Delights
The Garden of Earthly Delights is an ongoing series of castings made from doilies and rope. Combined and cast into iron, the once flexible fiber becomes frozen in its cast iron form. Delicate and thin, with the doilies appearing similar to leaves or flower heads, their forms evoke garden detritus or arteries delivering blood to an extremity. Dyed in shades of green and transfigured into iron, the works together become a dystopian garden. Combining women’s decorative craft with marine ropes and casting it into an industrial material creates a new representation of growth, foreign and familiar.