Olivia Mae Sinclair
THE ARCHIVE (PILED)
Textiles
2021
Scraps of fabric
THE ARCHIVE (PILED) is a conceptual piece made from scraps of fabrics saved over the past five years. While reading “The Body Archive” by Julietta Singh, I asked myself repeatedly, “But what if you hate the archive?” The archive doesn’t know whether or not it’s liked or even valued. It just exists. I hate my internal body archive and my aesthetic body archive. As the artist creating the ‘outside’ body archive, I have the power to change it and represent it as I please. Memory is just as fragile as linen. It frays and tatters and is mendable. I am patching together pieces and scraps of time while lovingly sewing them back into something beautiful. The tears and loose threads represent the hardships and the moments I can’t stop remembering. .
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Olivia Mae Sinclair
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