Bundle Stone

2024

thread, glue, concrete slab

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Bundle Stone was made in Keremeos, BC at the Similkameen Artist Residency. It is installed on the residency grounds with sculptures left by other artists. My handwoven textile wraps a concrete slab found nearby, balancing on the edge of a boulder. These boulders periodically roll down from the nearby mountains, leaving deep gouges in the earth and crushing objects and beings in their path. I was thinking about the gestures of wrapping, gifting, and grief, wondering about the experience of heightened tension while we are in waiting. 

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Creative Access Description

Four photos of a shimmery white sculpture sitting atop a boulder situated on a rocky slope. The sculpture is small enough to be cradled in both arms, and the boulder is roughly five or six feet in diameter. The sculpture is made of a loosely woven textile wrapped snugly around the broken-off corner of a concrete slab, with rocks and concrete peeking through the threads. With the textile taking on the shape of the concrete, the sculpture is an asymmetrical trapezoid with wide bevelled edges. It is balanced on its smallest edge, becoming wider at the top and leaning back on a raised part of the boulder.

 

Some photos are taken up close, showing the uneven weave of the threads and the wavy texture across the surface of the sculpture. Some photos are taken from far away, showing rocky grey and brown mountains rising above the sculpture and the boulder. There are spiky sagebrushes, a grove of evergreen trees, and a deep blue cloudless sky. In the distance are wooden fence posts and powerlines. 

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