This series of sculptures proposes poetic and tensile entanglements between human and tree limbs, with textiles as the intermediary. Behind this work is a desire to imagine and queer interspecies intimacy. Research includes a tree climbing course at Cornell University and studies of the tensile properties of arborists’ ropes and knots.
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