Pockets is an array of casts derived from the interior of every pocket in my wardrobe. The pockets are cast exclusively from compressed dryer lint, adapting traditional paper making processes. The lint was saved over years from numerous household washes and carefully sorted to provide a spectrum of subtle colors reflecting the family’s clothing. These pockets contain small fragments caught in the lint trap–hair, thread, plant matter, paper scraps–residue that also collects in pockets. I utilize the shapes and spaces of clothing to mark the significance of cloth to both the production of gendered trades and cultural constructions of femininity. The work’s process echoes the daily experience of embodied labor. The body’s presence becomes subsumed in the artifact.
Pockets. cast dryer lint, installation 6 x 12 feet, 2014
